moral-culpability
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-5375 | Isidro Miguel Delacruz v. Texas | Texas | 2023-08-17 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment capital-sentencing constitutional-proportionality death-penalty due-process jury-instructions mitigation-evidence moral-culpability | Can the Texas death penalty statute, which instructs the jury to consider "the circumstances of the offense, the defendant's character and background,… |
| 22-5891 | Kevin B. Burns v. Tony Mays, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-10-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (7)IFP | capital-punishment capital-sentencing felony-murder ineffective-assistance moral-culpability residual-doubt sentencing state-law strickland-v-washington | 1. Whether an ineffective assistance claim may be based on counsel's failure to exercise a state-law right to introduce residual doubt evidence at a c… |
| 19-7862 | Wesley Paul Coonce, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment confrontation-clause eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment intellectual-disability moral-culpability sentencing-hearing | 1. Because the age at which a capital defendant became intellectually disabled does not bear on his moral culpability, did the Court of Appeals err in… |
| 18-6713 | Donald Anthony Grant v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2018-11-15 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty eddings-precedent eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment lockett-rule lockett-v-ohio mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigating-evidence moral-culpability | Whether Oklahoma's "moral culpability" jury instruction, which restricts consideration of mitigating evidence of a defendant's mental health and backg… |