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9 results for “Kenneth Eugene Smith”
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 23-6517 | Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama | Alabama | 2024-01-19 | Denied | constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia posttraumatic-stress-disorder | Does a second attempt to execute a condemned person following a single, cruelly willful attempt to execute that same person violate the prohibition ag… |
| 23A664 | Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama | Alabama | 2024-01-19 | Denied | cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-attempt iv-access lethal-injection | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a state from executing a condemned prisoner after multiple failed execution attempts involving repeated difficu… |
| 22-580 | John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Kenneth Eugene Smith | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-22 | Denied | alternative-method comity death-penalty eighth-amendment feasibility finality method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia | Whether an alternative method of execution is feasible and readily implemented merely because the executing State has statutorily authorized the metho… |
| 22A441 | John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. v. Kenneth Eugene Smith | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-17 | Presumed Complete | None | |
| 22-6049 | Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama | Alabama | 2022-11-14 | Denied | capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination jury-override state-federal-practice | Does executing a condemned person contrary to a capital sentencing jury's determination that he should be sentenced to life imprisonment without the p… |
| 22A423 | Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama | Alabama | 2022-11-14 | Denied | 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 … |