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SUMNER v. SHUMAN

No. 86-246.

483 U.S. 66 (1987)

107 S.Ct. 2716

97 L.Ed.2d 56

SUMNER, DIRECTOR, NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF PRISONS, ET AL. v. SHUMAN

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 22, 1987

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brain McKay, Attorney General of Nevada, argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs was Brooke A. Nielsen, Deputy Attorney General.

Daniel Markoff, by appointment of the Court, 481 U.S. 1004, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was N. Patrick Flanagan III.*

JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case presents the question whether a statute that mandates the death penalty for a prison inmate who is convicted of murder while serving a life sentence without possibility of parole comports with the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.

I

In 1958, respondent Raymond Wallace Shuman was convicted in a Nevada state court of first-degree murder for the...

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