Ex Parte Davis

This is a death penalty case. This Court has held the proceedings in this case in abeyance since 1987 pending decisions of the United States Supreme Court that are dispositive of a vital issue to be decided by this Court. That issue is whether the imposition of capital punishment on an individual for a capital felony committed at 17 years of age constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment.

The petitioner raised that issue, along with 14 others:

"I. Did the trial judge err to reversal in denying Appellant's Motion for New Trial, as amended, on the grounds that the…