No. 25A104

Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2025-07-24
Status: Denied
Type: A
Tags: arbitrary-and-capricious cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-override
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

Question not identified.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit executing a defendant whose death sentences were imposed by bare majority jury votes and judicial override of jury recommendations, particularly where similarly situated defendants received relief post-Hurst and the sentencing scheme creates a substantial risk of arbitrary and capricious imposition of the death penalty

Docket Entries

2025-07-30
Application (25A104) referred to the Court.
2025-07-30
Application (25A104) 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.
2025-07-28
Response to application from respondent Florida filed.
2025-07-24
Application (25A104) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Edward James Zakrzewski, II
Lisa Marie FusaroCapital Collateral Regional Counsel - North, Petitioner
State of Florida
Carla Suzanne BechardOffice of the Attorney General, State of Florida, Respondent