Supreme Court of the United States, 1986

Moore v. Texas

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided February 21, 1986 · Brennan, Marshall, Blackmun, Certiorari

474 U.S. 1113; 106 S. Ct. 1167; 54 U.S.L.W. 3558; 89 L. Ed. 2d 289; 1986 U.S. LEXIS 1280 (United States Reports)

Opinion of the Court

Ct. Crim. App. Tex. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to Justice White, and by him referred to the Court, denied.

Justice Blackmun and Justice Stevens would grant the application for stay. Certiorari 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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