No. 25A1000

Michael L. King v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: N/A
Status: Denied
Type: A
Tags: death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-protocol lethal-injection
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

Question not identified.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses require a stay of execution and evidentiary hearing when a death row inmate challenges alleged maladministration of a state's lethal injection protocol as applied unequally or inconsistently, and whether denial of access to execution records violates constitutional rights to meaningful judicial review

Docket Entries

2026-03-16
Application (25A1000) referred to the Court.
2026-03-16
Application (25A1000) 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.
2026-03-13
Response to application from respondent Florida filed.
2026-03-11
Application (25A1000) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Michael King
Ali Andrew ShakoorCapital Collateral Regional Counsel, Petitioner
State of Florida
Scott Andrew BrowneOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent