No. 23A856

Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden

Lower Court: Georgia
Docketed: 2024-03-20
Status: Denied
Type: A
Tags: adaptive-deficits death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing woodard-precedent
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

Question not identified.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically bars the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant whose IQ scores and adaptive deficits demonstrate intellectual disability

Docket Entries

2024-03-20
Application (23A856) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.
2024-03-20
Application (23A856) referred to the Court.
2024-03-20
Application (23A856) for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

Attorneys

Willie Pye
Gretchen Mary StorkFederal Defender Program, Inc., Petitioner