Stephens v. Kemp, Superintendent, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center

rsTiCE Powell, with whom The Chief Justice, Justice :nquist, and Justice O’Connor join,

dissenting,

lis is another capital case in the now familiar process in which pplication for a stay is filed here -within the shadow of the date time set for execution.

s summarized by the Court of Appeals the relevant facts are:

“After escaping from county jail, petitioner was interrupted committing a burglary in Twiggs County by his victim whom he and an accomplice robbed, kidnapped, drove into Bleckley County and brutally killed; he was caught the next morning with the murder weapon in his possession. . . .…