No. 18-9356
Robert Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
IFP
Tags: constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-jurisprudence evolving-standards-of-decency mental-illness
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw FifthAmendment DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus Jurisdiction JusticiabilityDoctri
AdministrativeLaw FifthAmendment DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus Jurisdiction JusticiabilityDoctri
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Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether an individual who suffers from severe mental illness is exempt from execution under the Eighth Amendment and the evolving standards of decency?
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether an individual who suffers from severe mental illness is exempt from execution under the Eighth Amendment and the evolving standards of decency? 2. Whether the Fifth Amendment Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the imposition of the death penalty on a prisoner who has already served the statutorily prescribed alternative of a life sentence for the same first-degree murder conviction? i
Docket Entries
2019-05-23
Reply of petitioner Robert Joe Long filed.
2019-05-23
Application (18A1200) referred to the Court.
2019-05-23
Application (18A1200) denied by the Court.
2019-05-23
Petition DENIED.
2019-05-22
Brief of respondent Mark S. Inch in opposition filed.
2019-05-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 19, 2019)
2019-05-20
Application (18A1200) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.
Attorneys
Mark S. Inch
Stephen D. Ake — Office of the Attorney General, Respondent
Stephen D. Ake — Office of the Attorney General, Respondent