| 20-927 |
United States v. Dustin John Higgs |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
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alternate-state-designation criminal-judgment death-sentence-implementation federal-death-penalty-act federal-death-sentence federal-jurisdiction state-death-penalty state-law-repeal |
Whether the district court erred in holding that it lacked authority after the sentence became final to designate an alternate State under 18 U.S.C. 3… |
| 20-6500 |
Alfred Bourgeois v. T. J. Watson, Warden, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
death-penalty diagnostic-standards due-process federal-death-penalty-act federal-statute habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review |
Does the Federal Death Penalty Act prohibit the execution of a federal prisoner who is intellectually disabled? |
| 20-688 |
Orlando Cordia Hall v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
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access-to-counsel clemency clemency-process covid-19 covid-19-pandemic due-process execution-notice federal-death-penalty-act right-to-counsel ultra-vires |
Whether the government should be allowed to move forward with Petitioner's execution on November 19, 2020? |
| 20-5766 |
Christopher Andre Vialva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-general-power death-penalty death-sentence execution-procedures federal-courts federal-death-penalty-act federal-law judicial-precedent state-law state-law-implementation |
What law governs a federal court's implementation of a death sentence? |
| 19-1348 |
Alfred Bourgeois, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-rule capital-case death-penalty execution-protocol federal-death-penalty-act federal-law notice-and-comment procedural-rule statutory-interpretation |
Whether the phrase 'prescribed by the law of the State' in 18 U.S.C. § 3596(a) includes those procedures that state law requires state officials to es… |