When the plain meaning of a statute or rule guarantees continuous state postconviction counsel to a capitally sentenced defendant, but fails to provide a remedy when a defendant is deprived of such counsel, does the State violate the Fourteenth Amendment in depriving the defendant due process and meaningful access to the courts because newly appointed counsel cannot meaningfully represent the defendant in his truncated under-warrant litigation?

is: 3. Whether this systemic regression violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by abandoning the evolving standards of decency and reliability that Furman and Gregg established as prerequisites for the fair and consistent imposition of capital punishment?