STRINGER v. BLACK

No. 90-6616.

503 U.S. 222 (1992)

STRINGER v. BLACK, COMMISSIONER, MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al.

United States Supreme Court.

Decided March 9, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth J. Rose, by appointment of the Court, 502 U.S. 1011, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief were James W. Craig and Louis D. Bilionis.

Marvin L. White, Jr., Assistant Attorney General of Mississippi, argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief was Mike Moore, Attorney General.*

Kennedy, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and White, Blackmun, Stevens, and O'Connor, JJ., joined. Souter, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Scalia and Thomas, JJ., joined, p. 238.


Justice Kennedy, delivered the opinion of the Court.

The death sentence of the petitioner in this case was decreed by a judgment that became final before we decided either Maynard v. Cartwright, 486 U.S. 356 (1988), or Clemons v. Mississippi, 494 U.S. 738 (1990). The petitioner argues that the State of Mississippi committed the same...

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