moral-blameworthiness
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-7091 | Brandon De McCall v. Texas | Texas | 2024-03-28 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment capital-punishment culpability due-process eighth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions mitigating-evidence moral-blameworthiness | Whether the 'moral blameworthiness' jury instruction prevented the consideration of constitutionally relevant mitigating evidence |
| 18-9564 | Brian Suniga v. Texas | Texas | 2019-06-06 | Denied | IFP | death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions mitigation-evidence moral-blameworthiness tennard-v-dretke tex-code-crim-proc-art-37-071-section-2-f-4 | Whether the Texas death penalty statute, which limits the scope of mitigating evidence to that which reduces the defendant's 'moral blameworthiness,' … |