death-penalty-eligibility
3 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18-8561 | Jeffery Lee Wood v. Texas | Texas | 2019-03-26 | Denied | IFP | culpability death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness law-of-parties tison-v-arizona | Jeffery Wood is on death row in Texas despite the fact that he did not kill anyone. Mr. Wood was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death un… |
| 18-1077 | Akil Jahi, aka Preston Carter v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2019-02-19 | Denied | atkins-v-virginia collateral-review constitutional-protection death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent | 1. Does Hall v. Florida, 572 U.S. 701 (2014) apply retroactively to cases on collateral review? 2. Does Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017) apply … | |
| 18-7809 | James Were v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-02-07 | Denied | IFP | buck-v-davis competency-hearing death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores racial-bias | 1. Did the Supreme Court of Ohio violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it refused to reopen Petitioner's direct appeal to consider evidenc… |