Supreme Court of the United States, 1986

Straight v. Wainwright

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided March 31, 1986 · Blackmun, Brennan, Marshall

475 U.S. 1099; 106 S. Ct. 1502; 54 U.S.L.W. 3648; 89 L. Ed. 2d 903; 1986 U.S. LEXIS 1069 (United States Reports)

Opinion of the Court

C. A. 11th Cir. Certiorari denied.

Justice Blackmun dissents.

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 certiorari and vacate the death sentence in this case.

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