Whether the State's invocation of a defendant's nationality and ethnicity to obtain a death sentence violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment and whether Texas's contemporaneous objection rule precludes Supreme Court jurisdiction

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the State violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when it invokes a defendant’s nationality and ethnicity to obtain a death sentence. 2. Whether Texas’s application of the contemporaneous objection rule to deny review of a federal constitutional claim that a death sentence was obtained on the basis of a defendant’s race, ethnicity, or national origin is an adequate state ground of disposition that precludes jurisdiction in this Court. i