Certiorari denied.
Opinion of JUSTICE SOUTER, with whom JUSTICE BLACKMUN and JUSTICE STEVENS join, respecting the denial of the petition for writ of certiorari.
Syvasky Poyner, an inmate sentenced to die in Virginia's electric chair, brought this case as a class action under 42 U. S. C. §1983 and the Eighth Amendment, challenging Virginia's use of electrocution as a method of executing people sentenced to death. Before filing this suit, he had already...
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