(ORDER LIST:  530 U.S.)

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2000


CERTIORARI DENIED

00-5509	CRUZ, OLIVER DAVID V. JOHNSON, DIR. TX DOCJ
(00A112)

	The application for stay of execution of sentence of death
presented to Justice Scalia and by him referred to the Court is
denied.  The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

	Justice Stevens, Justice Ginsburg and Justice Breyer would
grant the application for stay of execution.