execution
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23A1052 | Richard E. Glossip v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2024-05-24 | Presumed Complete | certiorari criminal-appeals death-penalty eighth-amendment execution supreme-court | Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the execution of a death row inmate who challenges the constitutionality of the state's method of execution | |
| 23-7261 | Geary Wayne Walton v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution mental-illness rational-understanding | Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that … |
| 23A761 | Thomas Eugene Creech v. Idaho | Idaho | 2024-02-21 | Denied | constitutional-proportionality cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution mental-illness | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an individual with a demonstrated history of severe mental illness under the Eighth Amendment'… | |
| 23-503 | Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama | Alabama | 2023-11-14 | Denied | alabama constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process equal-protection execution execution-notice notice statute statutory-compliance | Does a state violate a prisoner's right to due process and equal protection of the laws when it complies with an execution related statute for some pr… | |
| 23-5740 | Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Texas | Texas | 2023-10-10 | Denied | IFP | catastrophic-event catastrophic-fire civil-rights death-penalty discovery drug-administration due-process execution execution-protocol inmate-rights procedural-due-process | Is an inmate who is to be executed entitled to procedural due process to discover the effects of a catastrophic fire on the drugs to be used in his ex… |
| 23-5145 | James Edward Barber v. Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-20 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emotional-anguish execution execution-protocol lethal-injection medical-suffering physical-suffering | Did the Eleventh Circuit correctly hold that no amount of physical suffering and emotional anguish imposed by allowing hours-long and countless attemp… |
| 22-5814 | Christopher Allan Allred v. Washington | Washington | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution mental-illness rational-understanding right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that … |
| 21-6550 | Wade Lay v. Aboutanaa El Habti, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-07 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process execution judicial-discretion standing | Whether the execution protocol used by the State of Oklahoma violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment |
| 20-5874 | Jerry Lard v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2020-10-01 | Denied | IFP | categorical-prohibition death-penalty eighth-amendment execution intellectual-disability ripeness waiver | Whether a death-sentenced inmate is permitted to waive a viable claim for an Eighth Amendment categorical probation against the execution of persons w… |
| 19-8695 | Ruben Gutierrez v. Luis V. Saenz, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-15 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (12)IFP | compelling-interest execution execution-protocol first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause religious-accommodation religious-adviser religious-exercise rluipa spiritual-aid | Whether the State's policy of denying a religious adviser to a condemned prisoner during execution violates RLUIPA and the Free Exercise Clause |