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Death Penalty & Criminal Sentencing
Madison v. Alabama
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/586/17-7505/
NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the preliminary print of the United States Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D. C. 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, in order that corrections may ...
The Supreme Court case of Vernon Madison v. Alabama addressed the question of whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a prisoner with a mental disorder that leaves them without memory of their crime. The Court held that while memory loss alone may not impede rational understanding, dementia or other men...
Death Penalty & Criminal Sentencing
Jones v. Mississippi
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/593/18-1259/
NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the preliminary print of the United States Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D. C. 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, in order that corrections may ...
The Supreme Court affirmed the Mississippi Court of Appeals' decision to sentence Brett Jones, who was under 18 when he committed a murder, to life without parole. The Court rejected Jones' argument that the sentencer must make a separate finding of permanent incorrigibility before imposing a life-without-parole senten...
Death Penalty & Criminal Sentencing
Bucklew v. Precythe
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/587/17-8151/
NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the preliminary print of the United States Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D. C. 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, in order that corrections may ...
Russell Bucklew, who was convicted of murder and other crimes, argued that Missouri's lethal injection protocol was unconstitutional due to his rare medical condition. Bucklew only raised this claim days before his scheduled execution, resulting in a stay and a five-year delay. The courts ultimately ruled against him, ...
Death Penalty & Criminal Sentencing
Glossip v. Gross
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/576/14-7955/
NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the preliminary print of the United States Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D. C. 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, in order that corrections may ...
The Supreme Court ruled that death row prisoners in Oklahoma failed to prove that the state's lethal injection protocol, which uses midazolam as the first drug, violates the Eighth Amendment by causing severe pain. The Court affirmed the lower courts' findings that the prisoners did not identify an available alternativ...