Case ID: us_499/html/1301-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Justice Scalia,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

COLE v. TEXAS
    No. A-704 (90-7411).
    Decided March 18, 1991
   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.