The decision drew an angry dissent from Justice Harry A. Blackmun, who took the unusual step of reading his opinion from the bench.
The Congress endorsed the joint statement from the London conference over angry dissent from some elements.
Judge Thomas cited with approval Justice Marshall's angry dissent in a case decided on the day he announced his retirement.
He made a quick gesture of angry dissent.
In recent terms, the Court has cut back sharply on Federal judicial power in this area, evoking some of Justice Brennan's angriest dissents.
In an angry dissent, Justice Harry A. Blackmun charged that the majority was virtually endorsing the death penalty for innocent people.
On Dec. 8, the Florida justices split bitterly, with Chief Justice Wells filing his own angry dissent.
The plan has provoked an angry dissent by Senator Joseph Biden, Democrat of Delaware.
Three years ago, he wrote an angry dissent from a decision that invalidated the display of a Nativity scene in a Pittsburgh courthouse.
In an angry dissent, Justice Harry A. Blackmun called the ruling "perilously close to murder."