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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A230 | Clyde Wendell Smith v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2025-08-27 | Presumed Complete | eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mississippi-supreme-court sixth-amendment successive-postconviction | Whether a state court's denial of a successive postconviction motion violates a criminal defendant's constitutional rights under the Sixth, Eighth, an… |
| 24-7491 | Richard Jordan v. Mississippi State Executioner, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-25 | Denied | chemical-paralytic constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution prisoner-rights | Whether a method-of-execution challenge requires comparing the proposed lethal injection protocol to known alternative methods under the Eighth Amendm… |
| 24A1279 | Richard Jordan v. Mississippi State Executioner, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-25 | Denied | alternative-method chemical-paralytic eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the use of a three-drug lethal injection protocol that includes midazolam, a chemical paralytic, and potassium … |
| 24-7165 | John Laurence Berman v. Richard Jordan, Senior Judge, Circuit Court of Maryland, Montgomery County, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-09 | Denied | briefing-procedure court-rules fourth-circuit judicial-process legal-fraud procedural-integrity | Is the Fourth Circuit's published 'informal briefing' sheet a fraud that should be disregarded |
| 19-1361 | Richard Jordan, et al. v. Georgia Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-11 | Denied | 8th-amendment alternative-method availability capital-punishment death-penalty department-of-corrections departments-of-corrections execution-method feasibility Glossip-v-Gross legal-precedent | Whether evidence of how other departments of corrections have obtained and successfully administered an alternative execution method is relevant to sh… |
| 19-235 | Richard Jordan, et al. v. Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-22 | Denied | burden-of-proof civil-rights corrections-department death-penalty discovery discovery-rights due-process eighth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection method-of-execution section-1983 standing | Whether the burden of proof demanded by Glossip in method-of-execution challenges requires commensurately broad discovery rights to provide plaintiffs… |