JOHN WAYNE CONNER
v.
ERIC SELLERS, WARDEN.

U.S. | 2016-07-14
No. 16–5229 (16A58).
136 S. Ct. 2440 Supreme Court of the United States (2016) Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 195 L. Ed. 2d 881
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Opinion of the Court

The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice THOMAS and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

*2441Justice BREYER, dissenting from denial of certiorari and application for stay of execution.

John Conner was initially sentenced to death 34 years ago. He now asks this Court to decide whether the Eighth Amendment permits a State to keep him incarcerated under threat of execution for so long. For reasons I have previously expressed, I would grant the petition to consider this constitutional question. See Lackey v. Texas , 514 U.S. 1045, 115 S.Ct. 1421, 131 L.Ed.2d 304 (1995) (memorandum of Stevens, J., respecting denial of certiorari); Boyer v. Davis , 578 U.S. ----, ----, 136 S.Ct. 1446, 1446-1447, 194 L.Ed.2d 840 (2016) (BREYER, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari); Valle v. Florida , 564 U.S. 1067, 132 S.Ct. 1, 180 L.Ed.2d 940 (2011) (BREYER, J., dissenting from denial of stay); Knight v. Florida , 528 U.S. 990, 993, 120 S.Ct. 459, 145 L.Ed.2d 370 (1999) (BREYER, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari); see also Glossip v. Gross , 576 U.S. ----, ----, 135 S.Ct. 2726, 2764-2767, 192 L.Ed.2d 761 (2015) (BREYER, J., dissenting).

I respectfully dissent from the denial of certiorari and application for stay of execution.

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    …1, 180 L.Ed.2d 940 (2011) (opinion dissenting from denial of stay); Boyer v. Davis , 578 U.S. ----, ----, 136 S.Ct. 1446, 1447, 194 L.Ed.2d 840 (2016) (opinion dissenting from denial of certiorari); Conner v. Sellers , 579 U.S. ----, 136 S.Ct. 2441, 195 L.Ed.2d 881 (2016) (opinion dissenting from denial of certiorari and denial of stay). Cases such as the ones discussed here provide additional evidence that it is important for us to do so. See Lackey v. Texas , 514 U.S. 1045, 115 S.Ct. 1421, 131 L.Ed.2d 304…

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