Execution of One of the Abolitionist "Hard Cases"

There were a handful of USSC orders rejecting stays for someone eventually executed particularly for killing a prison guard (in 1980) while on death row (for a 1974 abduction/murder of a couple). Breyer attached a dissent to one (citing a 1999 case involving this person) pursuant to his concern for those on death row for a long period of time.