Supreme Court of the United States, 1989

King v. Lynaugh, Director, Texas Department of Corrections

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided March 21, 1989 · Marshall

489 U.S. 1093; 109 S. Ct. 1563; 57 U.S.L.W. 3669; 103 L. Ed. 2d 930; 1989 U.S. LEXIS 1575 (United States Reports)

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Rodriguez v. State (Tex. App. 1990)
Stephen Albert McCoy v. James A. Lynaugh, Director Texas Department of Corrections (5th Cir. 1989)

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Opinion

489 U.S. 1093

109 S.Ct. 1563

103 L.Ed.2d 930

Leon Rutherford KING, petitioner,
v.
James A. LYNAUGH, Director, Texas Department of Corrections.

No. 88-6863 (A-759).

Supreme Court of the United States

March 21, 1989

The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice White and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is denied.

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, 96 S.Ct. 2909, 2950, 2973, 49 L.Ed.2d 859 (1976), we would grant the application for stay of execution and the petition for a writ of certiorari and vacate the death sentence in this case.

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