Whether Florida's use of the "conformity clause" in the Florida constitution improperly violates Ford's Fourteenth Amendment Due Process rights and his Eighth Amendment right to a true merits-based evaluation of his claims, premised on the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society?

Whether Roper v. Simmons, 443 U.S. 551 (2005) should be extended to include defendants who have a mental and developmental age of less than eighteen years old at the time of the offense in the class of offenders who are ineligible for the death penalty?

Whether Florida's use of the 'conformity clause' in the Florida constitution improperly violates Ford's Fourteenth Amendment Due Process rights and his Eighth Amendment right to a true merits-based evaluation of his claims, premised on the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society?