death-row

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A438 Demond Depree Bluntson v. Texas Texas 2025-10-16 Presumed Complete capital-murder certiorari death-row due-process eighth-amendment indigent-defendant Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals' decision upholding the trial court's denial of Mr. Bluntson's request to represent himself because he allegedly…
25A429 Tilon Lashon Carter v. Texas Texas 2025-10-15 Application constitutional-rights death-row exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief texas-criminal-procedure Question not identified.
25A215 Gary David Green v. Texas Texas 2025-08-22 Presumed Complete certiorari death-row death-sentence due-process indigent-defendant texas-criminal-appeals Question not identified.
24-1067 John Wetzel, et al. v. Roy L. Williams Third Circuit 2025-04-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights death-row eighth-amendment mental-illness qualified-immunity solitary-confinement Was it clearly established for qualified immunity purposes that long-term solitary confinement for a death-row inmate with a mental illness violated t…
24A775 Micah Brown v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights death-row federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 Question not identified.
24A625 Chad Alan Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2024-12-26 Presumed Complete certiorari death-row federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit state-conviction Question not identified.
24-5671 Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied IFP aedpa cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-row Does the Eighth Amendment prohibition against crue eighth-amendment intellectual-disability time-limitation Christeson v. Roper, 574 U.S. 373 (2015), held that a conflict of interest could satisfy the "interests of justice" standard set forth in Martel v. Cl…
24A60 Keith Edmund Gavin v. Alabama Alabama 2024-07-17 Denied criminal-procedure death-row filing-fee in-forma-pauperis indigent-status judicial-discretion Question not identified.
23-7153 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2024-04-07 Denied IFP capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-row deterrence eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation retribution When a death-sentenced person has demonstrated that he has been rehabilitated, does the Eighth Amendment prohibit his execution because the penologica…
23-5039 Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-sentencing death-row eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel psychopathy sixth-amendment 1. Whether, for purposes of measuring claims arising from capital sentencings, evidence of or reference to psychopathy should be treated as potential…
22-5848 Benjamin Robert Cole v. Jim Farris, Warden Oklahoma 2022-10-17 Denied IFP death-row disputed-issues-of-fact eighth-amendment execution-competency ford-v-wainwright fourteenth-amendment panetti-v-quarterman procedural-safeguards state-court warden-gatekeeper 1. Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decisions in Ford v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399 (1986), and Panetti v. Quarterman, 551 U.S.…
21-1268 Joe Clarence Smith, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-row eighth-amendment habeas-relief method-of-execution section-1983 1. Whether Mr. Smith's method-of-execution challenge is cognizable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 2. Whether a method of execution involving 44 years of mos…
18-9832 Patrick H. Murphy v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Amici (1)IFP civil-rights death-penalty death-row due-process establishment-clause free-exercise free-exercise-clause pastoral-accompaniment religious-liberty rluipa 1. When a death-sentenced inmate informs prison authorities a month in advance of his scheduled execution date of his desire to be accompanied during …
18-9288 In Re Sherman Lamont Fields 2019-05-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence appeals constitutional-rights death-penalty death-row due-process immediate-relief ineffective-counsel judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice wrongful-conviction Under Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corp. (1988) 486 U.S. 847, 100 L..Ed .2d 855, 108 S.Ct. 2194 ( A Judge(s) refusal to disqualify himself…
18-8057 Duane Allen Short v. Ohio Ohio 2019-02-21 Denied IFP capital-defense capital-punishment death-penalty death-row effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation mitigation-evidence plea-bargaining sixth-amendment 1. Is a capital defendant's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel violated where, but for counsel's intervention and unfounded …
18-6890 In Re Joseph C. Garcia 2018-11-30 Denied IFP actual-innocence capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-row eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process psychological-stress 1. Whether Joseph Garcia's extended stay on Texas' death row for nearly 16 years has resulted in his suffering additional severe psychological stress …
18-6214 Ricardo Rene Sanders v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-violation brady-violations california-habeas cullen-v-pinholster death-row eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas habeas-corpus materiality materiality-test ninth-circuit prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether this Court should clarify that under Harrington v. Richter, 562 U.S. 86, 98 (2011), when the federal habeas courts evaluate the summary den…
24A590 Kevin Underwood v. Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied clemency-proceedings death-row due-process fourteenth-amendment life-interest state-law Whether the due process clause provides any protection for petitioners in state clemency proceedings that are explicitly required by state law.