| 25A563 |
Rodney Vance Frith v. Kyle Smith |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Application |
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cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment medical-indifference prisoner-rights section-1983 serious-medical-needs |
Question not identified. |
| 25A457 |
Anthony Boyd v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
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asphyxiation cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction |
When performing a comparative analysis to determine whether an alternative means of execution would significantly reduce a substantial risk of severe … |
| 25A185 |
Kayle B. Bates v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
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capital-punishment constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment irreparable-harm |
Question not identified. |
| 24A1175 |
Kevin Salvador Golphin v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2025-06-02 |
Presumed Complete |
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cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment juvenile-offender life-without-parole miller-v-alabama rehabilitation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A698 |
Randy W. Duck v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Presumed Complete |
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constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment method-of-execution prisoner-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 24A688 |
Thomas Creech v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2025-01-14 |
Presumed Complete |
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botched-execution cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-attempt resweber-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 24A354 |
Jessie J. Barnes v. Donald Uhler, Superintendent, Upstate Correctional Facility, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-15 |
Presumed Complete |
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conditions-of-confinement cruel-and-unusual deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-care prisoner-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 24A295 |
Larry D. Sapp v. Kimberly Foxx, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-09-25 |
Denied |
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civil-punishment cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment mendoza-martinez public-office time-limits |
1. This case presents a substantial and novel question of federal law affecting 70-100 million people, plus their families involving over 44,000 state… |
| 24A140 |
Christopher Harry West v. Mark Emig, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Presumed Complete |
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cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment mattress-removal mental-health prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
Question not identified. |
| 24A15 |
Bobby Tatum v. Correctional Officer Hunter, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
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constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment injunctive-relief prisoner-rights sexual-assault |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1065 |
Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
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constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-gurney prolonged-restraint |
Whether the Eighth Amendment is violated when a condemned prisoner is restrained to an execution gurney for a prolonged period of time without access … |
| 23A850 |
Benjamin F. Whiteman v. Kathy Jennings, Attorney General of Delaware, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Presumed Complete |
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constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual due-process habitual-offender mandatory-minimum sentencing-statute |
Question not identified. |
| 23A761 |
Thomas Eugene Creech v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
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constitutional-proportionality cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution mental-illness |
Question not identified. |
| 23A688 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
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cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-method fourteenth-amendment nitrogen-hypoxia |
Whether the State of Alabama's planned execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith using nitrogen hypoxia—a method never before attempted by any State or the fe… |
| 23A664 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-01-19 |
Denied |
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cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-attempt iv-access lethal-injection |
Question not identified. |
| 23A599 |
William Phillip Neidinger v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Denied |
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cruel-and-unusual due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing identity-preservation judicial-discretion |
Question not identified. |
| 23A444 |
David Santiago Renteria v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
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cruel-and-unusual degraded-drugs due-process eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' rejection of petitioner's Eighth Amendment and Due Process Clause claims—based on uncontested evidence th… |
| 23-5442 |
Wayne Jerome Johnson v. California |
California |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual double-jeopardy due-process felony-misdemeanor penal-code-interpretation three-strikes three-strikes-law vagueness |
Whether it is unconstitutional, i.e., cruel and unusual, double jeopardy, and a violation of the due process clause to impose two separate strikes on … |
| 21-1363 |
Brandon Scott Lavergne v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-without-parole plea-agreement rule-60b-petition solitary-confinement |
1) Is a criminal sentence of life without parole in
solitary confinement a cruel and unusual sentence?
2) Ifone federal district court finds I was no… |
| 19-7594 |
Felix Lopez-Cabrera v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment age-of-culpability age-of-majority criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence life-sentences national-consensus neuroscience |
Whether Supreme Court jurisprudence finding mandatory life sentences for juveniles cruel and unusual under the Eight Amendment, and non-mandatory life… |
| 18A1264 |
City of Boise v. Robert Martin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Presumed Complete |
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criminal-punishment cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment homelessness public-spaces shelter-availability |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1238 |
Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
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cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam pain-and-suffering |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9031 |
In Re Michael Brandon Samra |
|
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
brain-development capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards habeas-corpus juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders neurological-development neuroscience |
In Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, 578 (2005), this Court held that the Eighth Amendment forbids the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who … |
| 18A1002 |
Joseph Carter v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-01 |
Presumed Complete |
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cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proportionality sentencing-discretion |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1003 |
Gary Reid v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-01 |
Presumed Complete |
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cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-sentence miller-v-alabama proportionality |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7503 |
Abdur Rahim Ambrose v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
contemporary-standards-of-decency cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment geographic-arbitrariness racial-arbitrariness |
I. Does the death penalty in and of itself violate the Eighth Amendment in light of contemporary standards of decency and the geographic and racial ar… |
| 18-5425 |
Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. Joseph Aponte, et al. |
New York |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-detention standing |
1. Is thr Nru Yok Stute Bil Lav as appli-d (530.40) a bill of Attuinder 272
2. Is denyin horing, not risprdhny to mations, prporly keeping accyse out… |
| 24A553 |
Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction v. Kayla Jean Ayers |
Sixth Circuit |
|
Denied |
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cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment gender-affirmation medical-treatment prison-conditions transgender-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 24A284 |
Freddie Owens v. Bryan Stirling, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
|
Denied |
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capital-punishment competency cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment mental-illness |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1202 |
Robert Joe Long v. Florida |
Florida |
|
Denied |
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cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment etomidate lethal-injection medical-condition |
Question not identified. |
| 25A698 |
Frank Walls v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Denied |
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cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection medical-vulnerability pulmonary-edema |
Question not identified. |
| 25A892 |
Ronald Palmer Heath v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
|
Denied |
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cruel-and-unusual drug-administration eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution protocol-violation |
Question not identified. |