reasons-for-execution

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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 …