penological-goals
3 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-941 | Wayne Sellers, IV v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-03-03 | Denied | Response Waived | diminished-culpability eighth-amendment felony-murder life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing penological-goals | Petitioner received a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for felony murder. He was twenty years old at the time… |
| 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… |
| 23A890 | Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2024-04-07 | Denied | capital-punishment certiorari-standard death-penalty eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation | Question not identified. |