COLE
v.
TEXAS

U.S. | 1991-03-18
No. A-704 (90-7411)
499 U.S. 1301 Supreme Court of the United States (1991) Positive Treatment
Cited by 2 cases
Opinion of the Court
Justice Scalia,

Justice Scalia,

Circuit Justice.

I have before me an application for a stay of execution pending disposition of a petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas. The petitioner seeks direct review of the judgment of the Texas courts affirming his death sentence.

I will in this case, and in every capital case on direct review, grant a stay of execution pending disposition by this Court of the petition for certiorari. While I will not extend the time for filing a petition beyond an established execution date, see Madden v. Texas, 498 U. S. 1301 (1991) (Scalia, J., in chambers), neither will I permit the State’s execution date to interfere with the orderly processing of a petition on direct review by this Court.

It is so ordered.

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    …lication states that he is scheduled to be executed on November 8, 1995. I have said that “I will... in every capital case on direct review, grant a stay of execution pending disposition by this Court of the petition for certiorari.” Cole v. Texas, 499 U. S. 1301 (1991). I have also made clear, however, that the purpose of such a stay is to prevent the execution date from “interfering] with the orderly processing of a petition on direct review by this Court.” Ibid. In the present case, and at the present tim…

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