Case ID: us_468/html/1220-05.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Justice Marshall,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

July 11, 1984
    No. A-22.
    Stanley v. Kemp, Warden.
   Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to Justice Powell, and by him referred to the Court, denied.

Justice Stevens would grant the application.

Justice Marshall,

with whom Justice Brennan joins,

dissenting.

Petitioner challenges his conviction and death sentence on six colorable grounds. His stay application presenting those assignments of error did not arrive in this Court until 10:25 p. m. on July 11, 1984, less than two hours before his scheduled execution. At a minimum, I would grant a stay of sufficient duration to make possible a meaningful evaluation of petitioner’s claims. In my view, the importance and irrevocability of our decision require at least that we take the time necessary to ensure that the proceedings below were as error free as humanly possible.

I dissent.