Supreme Court of the United States, 1984

Knighton v. Blackburn

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided October 29, 1984 · Brennan, Marshall

469 U.S. 927; 105 S. Ct. 375; 53 U.S.L.W. 3337; 83 L. Ed. 2d 311; 1984 U.S. LEXIS 4087 (United States Reports)

Opinion of the Court

Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to JUSTICE WHITE, and by him referred to the Court, denied.

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.

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