No. 83-6350 | SCOTUS | Feb 25, 1985
Lead Opinion
466 U.S. 954" date_filed="1984-04-23" court="SCOTUS" case_name="Tomlin v. Alabama">466 U. S. 954. The orders entered May 21, 1984 [467 U.S. 1202" date_filed="1984-05-21" court="SCOTUS" case_name="McCorquodale v. Balkcom">467 U. S. 1202], suspending the effect of the order denying the petition for writ of certiorari and staying execution of sentence of death are vacated. Petition for rehearing denied.
Dissenting Opinion
dissenting.
Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153" date_filed="1976-07-22" court="SCOTUS" case_name="Gregg v. Georgia">428 U. S. 153, 227, 231 (1976), we dissent from the Court’s order vacating the stay of execution in this case.