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Glass v. Louisiana, 471 U.S. 1080 (1985), was a case denied for hearing by the United States Supreme Court in 1985. The case is famous for Justice Brennan's dissent from the denial of certiorari, joined by Justice Marshall, arguing that the death penalty is always unconstitutional.
Harris, 465 U.S. 37 (1984) — A state appellate court, before it affirms a death sentence, is not required to compare the sentence in the case before it with the penalties imposed in similar cases if requested to do so by the prisoner. Whitmore v. Arkansas, 495 U.S. 149 (1990) — Mandatory appellate review is not required in death penalty cases.
Morgan v. Illinois, 504 U.S. 719 (1992), is a case decided by the United States Supreme Court. The case established the right of defendants to challenge for cause any juror that would automatically impose the death penalty in all capital cases.
Fielder’s case has been joined with the case of Hugo Villanueva-Morales, a Kansas City, Kansas, man accused of murder in a 2019 mass shooting at a KCK bar, for the death penalty hearing, the ...
Other recent death penalty cases clouded by doubts. Similar situations unfolded in two other capital punishment cases in the last three weeks alone, with one ending in an execution despite ...
Two of the 37 people on federal death row whose sentences were commuted last month are trying to block President Joe Biden's clemency action.. Shannon Wayne Agofsky, who was sentenced to death in ...
In the federal appeals, Mullis's lawyers argued that his sentencing was unconstitutional due to ineffective trial counsel and asked that the death sentence be overturned in his case as it breached his constitutional rights. However, the federal courts rejected these arguments and upheld the death penalty in Mullis's case. [33]
Anti-death penalty groups argued that the death penalty should not be carried out for them due to their intellectual disabilities. This issue was closely linked to the case of Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, who was also sentenced to death despite his alleged intellectual disability, and in spite of both local and international pleas for clemency. [26]