Legal Opinion
Rupe v. Wood
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 15, 1996No. Nos. 94-99013, 94-99014PublishedCited by 153 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal by the Superintendent of the Washington State Penitentiary, Tana Wood, from a judgment of the district court granting a writ of habeas corpus to petitioner Mitchell Rupe. Rupe was convicted of first degree murder for the shooting deaths of two bank tellers and sentenced to death. The district court declined to disturb the underlying convictions but granted the writ and vacated the sentence on two grounds. First, it ruled that Rupe would suffer cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment if he were put to death by hanging,…
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