Court Opinion

ID: 9434333
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:44:21.514947+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:48.565823
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*985Justice Ginsburg,
with whom Justice Breyer joins, dissenting.
This Court’s decision in Atkins v. Virginia, ante, p. 304, made it tenable for a petitioner to urge reconsideration of Stanford v. Kentucky, 492 U. S. 361 (1989), in which the Court rejected an Eighth Amendment challenge to the execution of a person as punishment for a crime committed while under the age of 18. For the reasons stated by Justice Stevens, I think it appropriate to revisit the issue at this time. I therefore join Justice Stevens in dissenting from the denial of a stay.