Carman Deck has been sentenced to death three times. Each of those death sentences were overturned — once by the U.S. Supreme Court — as a result of prejudicial constitutional violations in his trials. Nonetheless, he faces execution in Missouri on May 3, 2022 because a procedural technicality that overturned his third grant of relief, blocking him from presenting his claim that critical mitigating evidence calling for a sentence less than death had become unavailable due to the long delays between his first, second, and third trials. On April 1, 2022, Deck’s lawyers filed a petition for writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court seeking review of his case. On April 12, 2022, he filed an application to stay his execution to permit that review to take place. Both issues are fully briefed and, as of April 29, remained pending before the Court. The stay application asserts that the constitutional right to a speedy trial applies to the penalty phase of capital trial. It argues that “[a...