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- SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
- HENRY JOSE ESPINOSA, PETITIONER v. FLORIDA
- petition for writ of certiorari to the supreme court
- of florida
- No. 91-7390. Decided June 29, 1992
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- Justice Scalia, dissenting.
- For the reasons given in my opinion in Sochor v. Florida,
- 504 U. S. ___, ___ (1992) (slip op., at 1), I dissent from the
- Court's summary reversal of Espinosa's death sentence.
- Since the Florida courts found several constitutionally
- sound aggravating factors in this case, Espinosa's death
- sentence unquestionably comports with the -narrowing-
- requirement of Furman v. Georgia, 408 U. S. 238 (1972).
- Compliance with that requirement is the only special
- capital-sentencing procedure that the Eighth Amendment
- demands. See Walton v. Arizona, 497 U. S. 639, 669-673
- (1990) (Scalia, J., concurring in part and concurring in the
- judgment). I would deny the petition.
-