No. 22-7305
Stacey Johnson, et al. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al.
IFP
Tags: 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-challenge method-of-execution prisoner-rights scientific-consensus severe-pain standing
Key Terms:
Punishment
Punishment
Latest Conference:
2023-06-22
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a prisoner challenging the method of his execution to show a scientific consensus that the method is sure or very likely to cause severe pain
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a prisoner challenging the method of his execution to show a scientific consensus that the method is sure or very likely to cause severe pain. 2. Whether a court may adjudicate a method-of-execution challenge by assessing the painfulness of a State’s proposed method in a vacuum, without addressing the prisoner’s proposed alternative method. i
Docket Entries
2023-06-26
Petition DENIED.
2023-06-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/22/2023.
2023-06-02
Reply of petitioner Stacey Johnson, et al. filed.
2023-05-24
Brief of respondents Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. in opposition filed.
2023-05-03
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 24, 2023.
2023-05-02
Motion to extend the time to file a response from May 17, 2023 to May 24, 2023, submitted to The Clerk.
2023-04-13
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 17, 2023)
2023-02-08
Application (22A721) granted by Justice Kavanaugh extending the time to file until April 13, 2023.
2023-02-02
Application (22A721) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from February 12, 2023 to April 13, 2023, submitted to Justice Kavanaugh.
Attorneys
Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al.
Nicholas Jacob Bronni — Solicitor General of Arkansas, Respondent
Nicholas Jacob Bronni — Solicitor General of Arkansas, Respondent
Dexter Payne, et al.
Elizabeth B. Prelogar — Solicitor General, Respondent
Elizabeth B. Prelogar — Solicitor General, Respondent
Stacey Johnson, et al.
John Charles Williams — Federal Public Defender, Petitioner
John Charles Williams — Federal Public Defender, Petitioner