Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Stafford v. Oklahoma
467 U.S. 1212
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1984-05-29
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- this Court found it improper to permit the litigation of factual issues by ex parte affidavits and attachments on appeal
- despite lack of prior criminal acts of violence, circumstances of offense alone sufficient to support finding
- no actual conflict or adverse effect from publication rights contract
- defendant executed six restaurant workers
Citator
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- Authority status
- pending
- Cited by
- 52 opinions
Ct. Crim. App. Okla. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and certiorari granted. Judgment vacated and case remanded for further consideration in light of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U. S. 668 (1984).
Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall: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, 428 U. S. 153, 227, 231 (1976), we would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentence in this case.