competency-to-be-executed
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5262 | Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-01 | Denied | IFP | aedpa competency-to-be-executed ford-claim habeas-corpus mental-functioning second-or-successive-petition | Does a competency to be executed claim based upon common law 'idiocy' that presents a petitioner's current mental functioning and supported by recent … |
| 24-7111 | Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. Florida | Florida | 2025-05-01 | Denied | IFP | competency-to-be-executed cross-examination due-process ford-v-wainwright panetti-v-quarterman procedural-fairness | Whether Panetti creates a heightened standard of due process compared to Ford's controlling holding, and whether due process requires additional proce… |
| 24-5142 | Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split competency-to-be-executed death-penalty federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus late-evolving-facts second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation successive-petitions | Is a federal habeas petition based on late-evolving facts second or successive when it is not based on a claim that the inmate is incompetent to be ex… |
| 23-5244 | Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-31 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2254 capital-punishment competency-to-be-executed death-penalty delusional-beliefs habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-illness panetti-standard state-court-review | Whether the state court's finding that the petitioner did not meet the Panetti threshold for incompetence to be executed was unreasonable under 28 U.S… |
| 22-7764 | Duane E. Owen v. Florida | Florida | 2023-06-12 | Denied | IFP | competency competency-to-be-executed criminal-procedure death-penalty dementia due-process eighth-amendment insanity legal-insanity rational-understanding | Whether the State of Florida's perfunctory evaluation of Owen's claim that he is legally insane and incompetent to be executed violated the Eighth Ame… |
| 21-7829 | Clarence Wayne Dixon v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-11 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment competency-to-be-executed eighth-amendment execution-standard mental-competency mental-illness non-bizarre-delusions panetti-precedent panetti-v-quarterman schizophrenia | Does Panetti v. Quarterman foreclose a schizophrenic prisoner from demonstrating that non-bizarre delusions obstruct his rational understanding of the… |
| 19-8483 | Walter Barton v. William Stange, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2020-05-18 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence actual-innocence-evidence circuit-split competency-to-be-executed due-process evidence-standard execution-competence habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation schlup-standard schlup-v-delo | Does new evidence of actual innocence require that it was not available at trial or not presented to the jury? |