1. Whether the State of Florida's perfunctory evaluation of Owen's claim that he is legally insane and incompetent to be executed violated the Eighth Amendment when the state courts refused to provide meaningful consideration of whether Owen's longstanding and fixed delusions prevented a rational understanding of the link between the crime and its punishment?
2. Whether the Florida courts' failure to explicitly consider and make findings regarding Owen's dementia as a basis for lack of rational understanding when evaluating whether Owen is incompetent to be executed violates his rights under the Eighth Amendment?
Whether the State of Florida's perfunctory evaluation of Owen's claim that he is legally insane and incompetent to be executed violated the Eighth Amendment