retribution
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-7153 | Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2024-04-07 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-row deterrence eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation retribution | When a death-sentenced person has demonstrated that he has been rehabilitated, does the Eighth Amendment prohibit his execution because the penologica… |
| 20-8043 | Carl Wayne Buntion v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | IFP | arbitrary capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty deterrence eighth-amendment retribution | Whether carrying out the execution of a man who has spent thirty years under a sentence of death would violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition agai… |
| 19-7446 | Enrique A. Echeverria-Benitez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-circuit illegal-reentry plain-error retribution sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Whether the imposition of consecutive sentences for illegal reentry and revocation of supervised release was unreasonable and constituted reversible e… |
| 18-7857 | Calvin Raymond Jones v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-concerns courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process retribution sentencing supervised-release | Whether a district court commits reversible error by imposing a sentence for a supervised release violation for the purpose of retribution |
| 18-7276 | Juan Francisco Vega, et al. v. Rebecca Kapusta, Interim Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families | Florida | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law civil-commitment civil-procedure civil-rights deterrence due-process for-profit-corporation Kansas-v-Hendricks-521-US-346-1997 retribution retribution-and-deterrence statutory-interpretation statutory-oversight | May a for-profit corporation enact a system of retribution-and-deterrence by way of policy, in desecration of the dicta of Kansas-v-Hendricks, 521-U.S… |