capital-sentencing-scheme

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
19-6531 Demetrius Frazier v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-sentencing capital-sentencing-scheme certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus second-or-successive-petition sixth-amendment Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have issued a certificate of appealability because reasonable jurists could disagree over the district court's res…
18-5937 Charles Lee Burton v. Alabama Alabama 2018-09-11 Denied IFP aggravating-factors caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing capital-sentencing-scheme constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-recommendation mitigating-factors 1. Under Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), and Caldwell v. Mississippi , 472 U.S. 320 (1985), is Alabama's capital sentencing scheme constituti…