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12 results for “John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al.”

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25-5928 Anthony Boyd v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied comparative-analysis cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia When performing a comparative analysis to determine whether an alternative means of execution would significantly reduce a substantial risk of severe …
25A457 Anthony Boyd v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied asphyxiation cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits execution by nitrogen hypoxia that causes prolonged conscious suffering and asphyxiation when a less painful al…
25-5145 Nicholas Bernard Acklin v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied attorney-ethics conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel This is a death penalty case from Alabama in which the following occurred: (1) the defense attorney was being paid in substantial part by the defenda…
24A1040 Nicholas Bernard Acklin v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-28 Presumed Complete None
24-5993 Carey Grayson v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied conscious-suffocation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia superadded-terror Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit a method of execution involving conscious suffocation or superadded terror?
23-7591 Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied access-to-counsel access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment execution-procedure prisoner-rights Whether Alabama's execution process violates the Eighth Amendment
23A1065 Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-gurney prolonged-restraint Whether prolonged restraint on an execution gurney without access to counsel constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel an…
23-6562 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-protocol nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction ptsd-trauma standing Did the Eleventh Circuit deviate from established precedent when it affirmed the denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction on the ground that hi…
23A688 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-method fourteenth-amendment nitrogen-hypoxia Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit a state from executing an inmate using an untested nitrogen hypoxia method that poses a substant…
21A372 John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. v. Matthew Reeves Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-26 Presumed Complete None
21-579 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied accomplice-liability burden-of-proof capital-sentencing constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment specific-intent Under Waddington v. Sarausad, does a general jury instruction on accomplice liability relieve the State of its burden to prove specific intent beyond …
24A498 Carey Grayson v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied capital-punishment conscious-suffocation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits executing a prisoner via nitrogen hypoxia in a manner that potentially causes conscious suffocation and superad…