| 19-697 |
James Dwight Pavatt v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
aggravating-factor aggravating-factors arbitrary-application capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-ruling |
Whether a State's application of an aggravating factor to justify the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it makes punish… |
| 18-6766 |
David Gulbrandson v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-ruling second-in-time-petition statutory-aggravating-factors statutory-aggravator successive-petitions |
Whether reasonable jurists would debate the correctness of the district court's procedural ruling that Gulbrandson's second-in-time § 2254 petition wa… |
| 18-5246 |
Warren Darrell Rivers v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individualized-sentencing sentencing sentencing-determination |
Whether prosecution evidence that a capital defendant has been sentenced to death once before in the same case impermissibly undermines the sentencing… |