Raulerson v. Wainwright

469 U.S. 1198 | SCOTUS | 1985

Lead Opinion

Application for stay of execution of sentence of death scheduled for Wednesday, January 30, 1985, presented to Justice Rehnquist, and by him referred to the Court, denied.

Justice Powell took no part in the consideration or decision of this application.

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Dissenting Opinion

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

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, 227, 231 (1976), we would grant the application for stay and a petition for writ of certiorari and would vacate the death sentence in this case.