Legal Opinion · Dissent

Sireci v. Florida

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided December 12, 2016No. 16-5247Relating-toCited by 4 opinions

1DissentJustice Breyer

Henry Sireci, the petitioner, was tried, convicted of murder, and first sentenced to death in 1976. He has lived in prison under threat of execution for 40 years. When he was first sentenced to death, the Berlin Wall stood firmly in place. Saigon had just fallen. Few Americans knew of the personal computer or the Internet. And over half of all Americans now alive had not yet been born. See Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Census, Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Selected Age Groups by Sex: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015 (June 2016), online at…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  2. Glossip v. GrossSupreme Court of the United States · 2015
  3. In Re KemmlerSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  4. MedleySupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  5. Lackey v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1995

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Reynolds v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 2018
  2. Rommell Broom v. Tim ShoopCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2020
  3. Barr v. PurkeySupreme Court of the United States · 2020
  4. State v. ChesterSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2016

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