Brooks v. Alabama

The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice THOMAS and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

This Court's opinion upholding Alabama's capital sentencing scheme was based on Hildwin v. Florida, 490 U.S. 638 , 109 S.Ct. 2055 , 104 L.Ed.2d 728 (1989) ( per curiam ), and Spaziano v. Florida, 468 U.S. 447 , 104 S.Ct. 3154 , 82 L.Ed.2d 340 (1984), two decisions we recently overruled in Hurst v. Florida, 577 U.S. ----, 136 S.Ct. 616 , --- L.Ed.2d ----, 2016 WL 112683 (2016). See Harris v. Alabama, 513 U.S. 504 ,…