No. 25-5056
Edward Lee Busby, Jr. v. Texas
IFP
Tags: atkins-standard cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony intellectual-disability
Latest Conference:
2025-11-07
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit the execution of an intellectually disabled death row inmate when clinical criteria and expert consensus establish intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia?
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
Where the clinical criteria unequivocally establish that a death row inmate is intellectually disabled, and where all the experts -including the expert retained by the State -agree that the inmate is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for execution under this Court ’s decision in Atkins v Virginia and its progeny, does the Eighth Amendment bar the inmate ’s execution?
Docket Entries
2025-11-10
Petition DENIED.
2025-10-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/7/2025.
2025-10-08
Reply of Edward Busby submitted.
2025-10-07
Brief of respondent Texas in opposition filed.
2025-10-07
Reply of petitioner Edward Busby filed.
2025-09-25
Brief of Texas in opposition submitted.
2025-09-25
Brief of respondent Texas in opposition filed.
2025-09-04
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including October 8, 2025.
2025-09-02
Motion of Texas for an extension of time submitted.
2025-09-02
Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 8, 2025 to October 8, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
2025-08-01
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including September 8, 2025.
2025-07-31
Motion of Texas for an extension of time submitted.
2025-07-31
Motion to extend the time to file a response from August 7, 2025 to September 8, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
2025-07-03
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 7, 2025)
2025-05-23
Application (24A1117) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until July 3, 2025.
2025-05-16
Application (24A1117) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 3, 2025 to July 3, 2025, submitted to Justice Alito.
Attorneys
Edward Busby
David R. Dow — Petitioner
Texas