Callins v. Collins
Supreme Court of the United States
510 U.S. 1141 (1994)
Relevant factsFree
The case reached the Supreme Court on a petition for certiorari challenging a death sentence; the Court denied the petition without full briefing or argument on the merits.
IssueFree
Whether the Supreme Court's death-penalty jurisprudence, which simultaneously requires consistent application of capital punishment and full sentencer discretion to decline to impose it, can be reconciled within a constitutionally coherent framework.