moral-blameworthiness

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7091 Brandon De McCall v. Texas Texas 2024-03-28 Denied IFP 8th-amendment capital-punishment culpability due-process eighth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions mitigating-evidence moral-blameworthiness Where jurors were instructed that they may only consider mitigating evidence to be evidence that "reduces the defendant's moral blameworthiness," and …
18-9564 Brian Suniga v. Texas Texas 2019-06-06 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions mitigation-evidence moral-blameworthiness tennard-v-dretke tex-code-crim-proc-art-37-071-section-2-f-4 1) Tennard v. Dretke, 542 U.S. 274 (2004) disavowed any requirement of a nexus between evidence introduced in mitigation of sentence in a death penalt…