Lackey v. Texas

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1995-03-27

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Ct. Crim. App. Tex. Certiorari denied. Memorandum of Justice Stevens, respecting the denial of certiorari. Petitioner raises the question whether executing a prisoner who has already spent some 17 years on death row violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Though the importance and novelty of the question presented by this certiorari p…

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