KING – Appellant
Versus
LYNAUGH, (1989) – Respondent
KING v. LYNAUGH, (1989)
No. 88-6863
Decided On : March 21, 1989
The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice White and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is denied.
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,