Supreme Court of the United States, 1986

Esquivel v. McCotter

Esquivel v. McCotter
Supreme Court of the United States · Decided June 8, 1986 · Brennan, Marshall
476 U.S. 1165; 106 S. Ct. 2294; 90 L. Ed. 2d 972; 1986 U.S. LEXIS 1602 (United States Reports)

Esquivel v. McCotter

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 in order *1166to give the applicant time to file a petition for writ of certiorari, and would grant the petition and vacate the death sentence in this case.

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