No. 18-7503
Abdur Rahim Ambrose v. Mississippi
Amici (1)IFP
Tags: contemporary-standards-of-decency cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment geographic-arbitrariness racial-arbitrariness
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference:
2019-03-22
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Does the death penalty violate the Eighth Amendment?
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTIONS PRESENTED I Does the death penalty in and of itself violate the Eighth Amendment in light of contemporary standards of decency and the geographic and racial arbitrariness of its imposition? IL. Are the Eighth and/or Fourteenth Amendments violated where a state’s capital punishment statutes let a person be sentenced to death for a felony murder that requires no specific criminal intent for either the killing or the underlying felony and where, at the sentencing phase, the jury does not find that he killed, attempted to kill, or intended to kill, but only that he “contemplated that lethal force would be employed”? i
Docket Entries
2019-03-25
Petition DENIED.
2019-03-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/22/2019.
2019-02-26
Reply of petitioner Abdur Rahim Ambrose filed. (Distributed)
2019-02-19
Brief of respondent State of Mississippi in opposition filed.
2019-02-06
Brief amicus curiae of The Roman Catholic Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi filed.
2019-01-15
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 19, 2019)
Attorneys
Abdur Rahim Ambrose
Alison Steiner — Office of Capital Defense Counsel, Petitioner
State of Mississippi
LaDonna Curtis Holland — Mississippi Attorney General's Office, Respondent
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI