jury-override

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
25A104	Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida	Florida	2025-07-24	Denied		arbitrary-and-capricious cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-override	Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit executing a defendant whose death sentences were imposed by bare majority jury votes and judicia…
22-6049	Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama	Alabama	2022-11-14	Denied	IFP	capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination jury-override state-federal-practice	Does executing a condemned person contrary to a capital sentencing jury's determination that he should be sentenced to life imprisonment without the p…