The death penalty is the state-sanctioned punishment of executing an individual for a specific crime. Congress, as well as any state legislature, may prescribe the death penalty, also known as capital punishment, for crimes considered capital...
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Death row is defined as the section of a prison that holds prisoners who have been sentenced to death and are awaiting execution.
Overview:An extended stay on death row does not violate the Eighth Amendment, although the...
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Petitioner Matthew Descamps was arrested on March 25, 2005 in Stevens County, Washington. See Brief for Respondent, United States at 2–3. Officers from the Stevens County Sheriff’s Department responded after receiving an emergency call that a handgun...
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Delilah Guadalupe Diaz lives in Moreno Valley, California. Brief for Respondent, the United States at 5. One night in August 2020, she drove across the border from Mexico into the United States. Id. She told a border patrol officer who inspected the...
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In 1986, Congress established a tiered system of mandatory five- and ten-year prison sentences for drug-trafficking offenses. See Brief of the United States in support of Petitioners at 4. Congress was concerned about the proliferation of crack cocaine...
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Petitioner David Dubin worked for Psychological A.R.T.S., P.C. (“PARTS”), a psychological services company that provided mental health testing services to people at emergency shelters in Texas. United States v. Dubin at 321. Williams House, an...
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On September 22, 1999, Ramon Nelson was killed while riding his bike away from a liquor store in Markham, Illinois. See Owens v. Duncan, 781 F.3d 360, 362 (7th Cir. 2015); Brief for Petitioner, Stephen Duncan, Warden at 3. A person struck Nelson in...
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Ryan Eaton drove to his girlfriend’s apartment near Louisiana State University on May 13, 2006, around 11:30 P.M. Edwards v. Cain, Report and Recommendation at 3. As Eaton exited the vehicle, two armed assailants abducted him and took him to the ATM to...
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Anthony D. Elonis was indicted with five counts of making threats in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) (“§ 875(c)”). United States v. Elonis, 730 F.3d 321, 327 (3rd Cir. 2013). Section 875(c) provides that it shall be illegal to transmit “in interstate...
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The Latin translation of ex post facto is “from a thing done afterward.”
In a legal context, ex post facto is most typically used to refer to a criminal statute that punishes actions retroactively, thereby criminalizing...