Word: rhenquist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last minute, the Supreme Court sanctioned the judicial shortcut by voting 6-3 not to stay the execution Conservative Justice William H. Rhenquist had long sought a way to speed up the pace of state executions; he now found help from the newest justice, Sandra Day O'Connor. Justices Marshall, Brennan and Stevens protested the decision: "The court of appeals...still has not acted on the merits of the [Brooks] appeal...
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