BIRD
v.
COLLINS, DIRECTOR, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION
BIRD
COLLINS, DIRECTOR, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION
501 U.S. 1224
Supreme Court of the United States (1991)
Positive Treatment
Cited by 2 cases
Dissent
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 and the petition for writ of certiorari and would vacate the death sentence in this case.
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Moon v. Head, 285 F.3d 1301 (11th Cir. 2002)…entence. See Moon v. State, 258 Ga. 748, 375 S.E. 2d 442 (1988). On April 22, 1991, the United States Supreme Court denied his petition for a writ of certiorari. Moon v. Georgia, 499 U.S. 982, 111 S.Ct. 1638, 113 L.Ed.2d 733 (1991), reh’g denied by 501 U.S. 1224, 111 S.Ct. 2841, 115 L.Ed.2d 1010 (1991). Moon then turned to the Superior Court of Butts County, Georgia, (the “state habe-as court”) for relief, filing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. His petition contained fifty-one claims; some address…
Authorities Cited
- Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (U.S. 1976)