rational-understanding
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 … |
| 22-7764 | Duane E. Owen v. Florida | Florida | 2023-06-12 | Denied | IFP | competency competency-to-be-executed criminal-procedure death-penalty dementia due-process eighth-amendment insanity legal-insanity rational-understanding | Whether the State of Florida's perfunctory evaluation of Owen's claim that he is legally insane and incompetent to be executed violated the Eighth Ame… |
| 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 … |
| 20-7479 | Benjamin Velayo v. Cheryl Fox, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | IFP | cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment mental-illness rational-understanding reasons-for-execution | Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that … |
| 19-8728 | Joshua Harrell v. California | California | 2020-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus 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 … |
| 18-7620 | Emmanuel Adeyinka v. Harris County Jail, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights competency criminal-conviction cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eleventh-amendment immunity mental-illness monetary-damages personal-involvement rational-understanding section-1983 standing | Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has a severe mental illness that … |
| 18-6329 | Adan Sandoval Dominguez v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | competency competency-standard constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process factual-understanding judicial-standard major-depressive-disorder mental-competency mental-health rational-understanding standing trial-rights | Did defendant meet the competency requirement to stand trial set forth in Godinez v. Moran, 509 U.S. 389 (1993)? |