No. 23-6036

David Santiago Renteria v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2023-11-16
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: due-process executioner lethal-substances life state-law torture
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus Jurisdiction
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does a State deprive a person of life without due process of law when it delegates to its executioner unchecked discretion to ignore a state law prohibiting torture, ill treatment, or unnecessary pain, and permits him to inject prisoners with non-lethal substances in violation of a state law authorizing him to use only lethal substances in sufficient quantity to cause death?

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Does a State deprive a person of life without due process of law when it delegates to its executioner unchecked discretion to ignore a state law prohibiting torture, ill treatment, or unnecessary pain, and permits him to inject prisoners with non-lethal substances in violation of a state law authorizing him to use only lethal substances in sufficient quantity to cause death? 2. Does uncontroverted evidence that an executioner is acting outside his lawful authority, or wantonly and unnecessarily, in a manner that causes terror and a risk of severe pain demonstrate that the executioner has superadded terror or pain to the execution process? i

Docket Entries

2023-11-16
2023-11-16
Application (23A444) for stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Alito.
2023-11-16
Petition DENIED.
2023-11-16
Application (23A444) referred to the Court.
2023-11-16
Application (23A444) for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
2023-11-16
Brief of respondent Texas in opposition filed.

Attorneys

David Renteria
Tivon SchardlFederal Defender, Capital Habeas Unit, Petitioner
Tivon SchardlFederal Defender, Capital Habeas Unit, Petitioner
State of Texas
Jefferson David ClendeninOffice of the Attorney General of Texas, Respondent
Jefferson David ClendeninOffice of the Attorney General of Texas, Respondent