cruel-and-unusual

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A563 Rodney Vance Frith v. Kyle Smith Fourth Circuit 2025-11-14 Application 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 capital-punishment competency cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment mental-illness Question not identified.
18A1202 Robert Joe Long v. Florida Florida Denied 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 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 cruel-and-unusual drug-administration eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution protocol-violation Question not identified.