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9 results for “Kenneth Eugene Smith”

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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 …