There they began filing habeas petitions to the federal courts.

Following this decision, the Court remanded the habeas petitions to lower courts for decisions.

Section 106(b) of the act addresses second or successive habeas petitions.

Lower courts, agreeing with the administration, dismissed the habeas petitions.

James Liebman's letter of the same day claims a 40 percent success rate for habeas petitions in death penalty cases.

The Government has not filed a "factual return" in his habeas petition.

We were getting ready to file a habeas petition.

Andrade, by contrast, was an appeal from a federal habeas petition.

But habeas petitions continue to succeed in overturning death sentences all the time.

It would require Federal courts to render decisions in capital cases on habeas petitions within six months.