death-sentence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6909 Malik Allah-U-Akbar, fka Odraye G. Jones v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2026-02-25 Pending IFP capital-punishment death-sentence due-process habeas-corpus racial-discrimination writ-enforcement 1. Where a sovereign fails to comply with a conditional writ of habeas corpus, does a district court's subsequent order of "unconditional release" ent…
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.
24A513 Tony Barksdale v. Steve T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-26 Presumed Complete capital-murder certificate-of-appealability death-sentence eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus Question not identified.
24-5713 Hector Acosta v. Texas Texas 2024-10-07 Denied IFP death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment national-origin race-discrimination 1. Whether the State violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when it invok…
24A194 Hector Acosta v. Texas Texas 2024-08-22 Presumed Complete capital-murder death-sentence equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias Question not identified.
23A1165 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-27 Presumed Complete circuit-court death-sentence federal-review first-degree-murder habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
23A945 Clarence Mack v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-04-22 Presumed Complete capital-case certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims death-sentence habeas-corpus sixth-circuit Question not identified.
23-5630 Jack R. Sliney v. Florida Florida 2023-09-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment age-of-defendant death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders Whether under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, Florida may impose a death sentence upon an individual who was under the age o…
22-490 Lydell Chestnut, Deputy Warden v. Quincy J. Allen Fourth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) aedpa death-penalty death-sentence eating-disorder federal-habeas fourth-circuit-review mental-health mental-health-evidence schizophrenia sentencing-consideration state-post-conviction statutory-limitations Did the Fourth Circuit violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) limitations and needlessly overturn a state death sentence on an insubstantial premise that Allen's…
21-6590 Terry Lynn King v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-12-14 Denied IFP 8th-amendment categorical-approach constitutional-vagueness death-penalty death-sentence due-process elements-based-approach johnson-precedent prior-conviction prior-violent-felony sentencing-aggravator vagueness (1) Is the 'prior violent felony conviction' aggravating factor in Tennessee's death penalty statutes unconstitutional under Johnson v. United States,…
20-1568 Teresa Miller v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process judicial-procedure judicial-review Why did the court feel it necessary to order the defendant with a death sentence, so that they would not have their conduct or actions reviewed; why n…
20-7930 Oscar Smith v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-05-05 Denied IFP death-penalty death-sentence due-process fair-trial fundamental-rights juror-bias juror-misconduct procedural-rules state-court-proceedings Whether a state court violates the federal due process rights of a death sentenced prisoner who has asserted a colorable claim of juror bias and/or mi…
20-5954 Meryl S. McDonald v. Florida Florida 2020-10-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment post-conviction postconviction-counsel pro-se-filing right-to-counsel The question presented in this case is whether rule 3.851(b)(6)&(i) found in the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is unconstitutional and violates …
20-5767 William Emmett LeCroy, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-22 Denied IFP all-writs-act death-sentence district-court-discretion execution-date exigent-circumstances federal-district-court federal-procedure injunction judicial-modification stay-of-execution May a federal district court reset or modify an execution date for a federally death-sentenced inmate in order to manage unforeseen exigent circumstan…
20-5766 Christopher Andre Vialva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-21 Denied IFP attorney-general-power death-penalty death-sentence execution-procedures federal-courts federal-death-penalty-act federal-law judicial-precedent state-law state-law-implementation Since the federal government resumed executions this year, after a 17-year hiatus, the Courts of Appeals have addressed challenges to federal methods …
19-8742 Harold Wayne Nichols v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-06-18 Denied IFP arbitrary-and-capricious death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override prior-felony-aggravator settlement-agreement vagueness-doctrine The death sentence in this case is supported by only one aggravating circumstance, Tennessee's prior violent felony conviction aggravator. The elected…
19-6567 Danny Lee Hill v. Ohio Ohio 2019-11-08 Denied IFP bite-mark-evidence constitutional-rights conviction death-penalty death-sentence due-process expert-testimony fair-trial habeas-corpus scientific-evidence Bite-mark comparison evidence was the foundation of the State's case that convicted Petitioner Danny Lee Hill of murder and sentenced him to death. Th…
18-9252 Kevin Foster v. Florida Florida 2019-05-15 Denied IFP capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-findings jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt unanimous-verdict 1. Whether Mr. Foster's death sentence is unconstitutional because it violates the Eighth Amendment and the Due Process Clause where the jury did not …
18-9117 Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2019-05-02 Denied IFP death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona sentencing sixth-amendment "The Sixth Amendment requires a jury, not a judge, to find each fact necessary to impose a sentence of death." Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616, 619 (…
18-8992 Charles Lorraine v. Ohio Ohio 2019-04-25 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-verdict sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
18-8052 Michael Duane Zack, III v. Florida Florida 2019-02-21 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity retroactivity Does the partial retroactivity formula for Hurst u. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), claims designed by the Florida Supreme Court, as applied to a pris…
18-7540 David Dewayne Riley v. Alabama Alabama 2019-01-24 Denied IFP capital-post-conviction-proceedings capital-proceedings collateral-review death-penalty death-sentence effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan murray-v-giarratano post-conviction-counsel precedent state-court David Riley filed a pro se state post-conviction petition because, unlike every other state, Alabama does not provide counsel to death-sentenced inmat…
18-6902 Scott Mansfield v. Florida Florida 2018-12-03 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process fact-finding findings-of-fact jury-findings jury-instructions notice procedural-due-process sentencing unnoticed-defendant Whether a conviction and death sentence may stand where a jury made no specific findings of fact that subjected an unnoticed individual to conviction …
18-6167 Ronald Wayne Clark, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2018-10-02 Denied IFP capital-case capital-case,eighth-amendment,cruel-and-unusual-pu capital-punishment codefendant-culpability codefendants cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment proportionality-review reliability-of-death-sentence 1. Whether an assessment of the relative culpability of codefendants in a capital case in Florida is required pursuant to the Eighth Amendment in orde…
18-6110 Mikal Mahdi v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-09-28 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence habeas-corpus indigent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-history right-to-counsel sixth-amendment south-carolina-supreme-court state-court Question not identified.
18-5415 Louis B. Gaskin v. Florida Florida 2018-07-31 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity unconventional-rules 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose lim…
18-5330 Gregory Alan Kokal v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2018-07-24 Denied IFP capital-case capital-case,eighth-amendment,cruel-and-unusual-pu capital-punishment codefendant-culpability codefendants cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-sentence eighth-amendment proportionality-review 1. Whether an assessment of the relative culpability of codefendants in a capital case in Florida is required pursuant to the Eighth Amendment in orde…