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Supreme Court of the United States, 1985

Milton v. McCotter, Director, Texas Department of Corrections

Milton v. McCotter, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
Supreme Court of the United States · Decided June 25, 1985 · Marshall
472 U.S. 1033; 105 S. Ct. 3516; 87 L. Ed. 2d 645; 1985 U.S. LEXIS 2360 (United States Reports)

Milton v. McCotter, Director, Texas Department of Corrections

Opinion of the Court

Application for stay of execution of sentence of death scheduled for Tuesday, June 25, 1985, 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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