Supreme Court of the United States, 1985

Mason v. Sielaff

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided June 25, 1985 · Brennan, Marshall

472 U.S. 1033; 105 S. Ct. 3517; 87 L. Ed. 2d 645; 1985 U.S. LEXIS 2361 (United States Reports)

Opinion of the Court

C. A. 4th Cir. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to The *1034Chief Justice, and by him referred to the Court, denied. Cer-tiorari 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 the petition for writ of certiorari and would vacate the death sentence in this case.

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