No. 24-7151
Zane Michael Floyd v. Jeremy Bean, Warden, et al.
IFP
Tags: atkins-ruling capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-consensus
Key Terms:
Punishment HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
Punishment HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference:
2025-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a state may constitutionally execute a defendant who meets the strict medical standard for severe brain damage caused by fetal alcohol exposure
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
Capital Case) A national medical consensus finds severe brain damage caused by fetal alcohol exposure functionally equivalent and symptomatically identical to intellectual disability. The question presented is: Whether , given this medical consensus, the original meaning of the Eighth Amendment , and this Court’s rulings in Atkins and Roper, a state may constitutionally execute a defendant who meets the strict medical standard for severe brain damage caused by fetal alcohol exposure ?
Docket Entries
2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-06-18
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-06-13
Reply of Zane Floyd submitted.
2025-06-13
Reply of petitioner Zane Micheal Floyd, filed.
2025-06-03
Brief of The State of Nevada in opposition submitted.
2025-06-03
Brief of respondent Nevada in opposition filed.
2025-05-02
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 5, 2025)
2025-04-17
Application (24A984) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until May 5, 2025.
2025-04-11
Application (24A984) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from April 24, 2025 to May 5, 2025, submitted to Justice Kagan.
Attorneys
The State of Nevada
Zane Floyd
David Severen Anthony — Federal Public Defender's Office, Petitioner