1. Whether the State violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of
the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when it invokes
a defendant's nationality and ethnicity to obtain a death sentence.

2. Whether Texas's application of the contemporaneous objection rule to deny
review of a federal constitutional claim that a death sentence was obtained on
the basis of a defendant's race, ethnicity, or national origin is an adequate
state ground of disposition that precludes jurisdiction in this Court.

Whether the State's invocation of a defendant's nationality and ethnicity to obtain a death sentence violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment and whether Texas's contemporaneous objection rule precludes Supreme Court jurisdiction