Supreme Court of the United States, 1991

Cuevas v. Collins

Cuevas v. Collins
Supreme Court of the United States · Decided May 22, 1991 · Marshall
500 U.S. 939 (United States Reports)

Cuevas v. Collins

Opinion of the Court

Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to Justice Scalia, and by him referred to the Court, denied.

Dissenting Opinion

Justice Marshall,

dissenting.

Adhering to my view 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, 231 (1976), I would grant the application for stay of execution in order to give the applicant time to file a petition for writ of certio-rari and would grant the petition and vacate the death sentence in this case.

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