LAWSON v. DIXON

No. 93-9538 (A-1036).

512 U.S. 1215 (1994)

LAWSON v. DIXON, WARDEN.

Supreme Court of United States.

June 14, 1994.


Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to THE CHIEF JUSTICE, and by him referred to the Court, denied. Certiorari denied.

JUSTICE BLACKMUN, dissenting.

Despite alleged procedural problems, I find petitioner's constitutional challenge to the gas chamber to be a serious one. Only four States, Arizona, California, Mississippi, and North Carolina, still use the gas chamber as a method of execution. Its cruelty has been attested to on...

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