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DARDEN v. WAINWRIGHT

No. 69250.

495 So.2d 179 (1986)

Willie Jasper DARDEN, Jr., Petitioner, v. Louie WAINWRIGHT, Secretary, Department of Corrections, and Richard Dugger, Superintendent, Florida State Prison, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

October 3, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Augustus Harper, Jr., Tallahassee, for petitioner.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Richard W. Prospect, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for respondents.

PER CURIAM.

Willie Jasper Darden, a state prisoner under sentence of death for whom a fifth death warrant has been signed, petitions this Court for a writ of habeas corpus and requests a stay of execution. We have jurisdiction, article V, section 3(b)(9), Florida Constitution, and deny the requested relief.

In this petition Darden alleges that the death penalty in Florida is applied on the basis of race and other...

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