retribution

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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…