competency-to-execute
3 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5129 | Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2025-07-16 | Denied | IFP | common-law-prohibition competency-to-execute cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment ford-standard mental-incompetency | Whether a state may refuse to provide a process by which a state inmate may prove that he is not competent to be executed because he meets the common … |
| 25A53 | Victor Saldano v. Texas | Texas | 2025-07-14 | Presumed Complete | atkins-claim competency-to-execute death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony intellectual-disability | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an individual with intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia when multiple experts, inc… | |
| 24-7117 | Jeffrey Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-01 | Denied | IFP | competency-to-execute death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment mental-health panetti-standard | Does the Panetti standard for competency to be executed require more than a mere rational understanding of the physical fact of execution, and must it… |