No. 24A498

Carey Grayson v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al.

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: N/A
Status: Denied
Type: A
Tags: capital-punishment conscious-suffocation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits executing a prisoner via nitrogen hypoxia in a manner that potentially causes conscious suffocation and superadds terror and pain

Docket Entries

2024-11-21
Application (24A498) referred to the Court.
2024-11-21
Application (24A498) for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
2024-11-19
Application (24A498) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Carey Dale Grayson
John Anthony PalombiFederal Defenders, Petitioner