federal-death-penalty-act
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20-927 | United States v. Dustin John Higgs | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-11 | Denied | alternate-state-designation criminal-judgment death-sentence-implementation federal-death-penalty-act federal-death-sentence federal-jurisdiction state-death-penalty state-law-repeal | Whether the district court erred in holding that it lacked authority after the sentence became final to designate an alternate State under 18 U.S.C. 3… | |
| 20-6500 | Alfred Bourgeois v. T. J. Watson, Warden, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-12-03 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | death-penalty diagnostic-standards due-process federal-death-penalty-act federal-statute habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review | Does the Federal Death Penalty Act, which provides that a "sentence of death shall not be carried out upon a person who is mentally retarded," prohibi… |
| 20-688 | Orlando Cordia Hall v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. | District of Columbia | 2020-11-19 | Denied | access-to-counsel clemency clemency-process covid-19 covid-19-pandemic due-process execution-notice federal-death-penalty-act right-to-counsel ultra-vires | In light of these facts, the question presented is whether the government should be allowed to move forward with Petitioner's execution on November 19… | |
| 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 … |
| 19-1348 | Alfred Bourgeois, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. | District of Columbia | 2020-06-09 | Denied | Amici (2) | administrative-law agency-deference agency-rule capital-case death-penalty execution-protocol federal-death-penalty-act federal-law notice-and-comment procedural-rule statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the phrase "prescribed by the law of the State" in 18 U.S.C. § 3596(a) includes those procedures that state law requires state officials to… |