EVANS
v.
THIGPEN, COMMISSIONER, MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

U.S. | 1987-06-26
No. 86-6985 (A-942)
483 U.S. 1033 Supreme Court of the United States (1987) Positive Treatment
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Dissent
Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

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 of execution and the petition for writ of certiorari and would vacate the death sentence in this case.

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