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3 results for “Kenneth Smith”
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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? |
| 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… |
| 21-475 | Deanna Brookhart, Warden v. Kenneth Smith | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | 28-usc-2254 appellate-review evidence-sufficiency evidence-weighing federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt standard-of-review state-court-deference | Whether the Seventh Circuit violated 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)'s strictures in awarding habeas relief to respondent based on its own reweighing of the evide… |