| 19-1361 |
Richard Jordan, et al. v. Georgia Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
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8th-amendment alternative-method availability capital-punishment death-penalty department-of-corrections departments-of-corrections execution-method feasibility Glossip-v-Gross legal-precedent |
Whether evidence of how other departments of corrections have obtained and successfully administered an alternative execution method is relevant to sh… |
| 19-235 |
Richard Jordan, et al. v. Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
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burden-of-proof civil-rights corrections-department death-penalty discovery discovery-rights due-process eighth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection method-of-execution section-1983 standing |
1. Whether the burden of proof demanded by Glossip in method-of-execution challenges requires commensurately broad discovery rights to provide plainti… |
| 18-852 |
Anne L. Precythe v. Ernest Johnson |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
GVR |
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administrative-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-method feasible-alternative glossip-v-gross method-of-execution nitrogen-gas pentobarbital pleading-requirements |
Inmates who wish to challenge a method of execution under the Eighth Amendment must plead and prove an alternative method that is "feasible, readily i… |
| 18-6739 |
David Earl Miller, et al. v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. |
Tennessee |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment alternative-method available-alternative due-process facial-challenge fourteenth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection |
I. Whether under Glossip v. Gross, 135 S. Ct. 2726 (2015), inmates raising a facial challenge to one of two methods contained in a State's lethal inje… |
| 18-5096 |
Raymond Tibbetts v. John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
baze-v-rees baze-vs-rees eighth-amendment execution-protocol glossip-v-gross glossip-vs-gross lethal-injection midazolam prisoner-rights scientific-evidence substantial-risk substantial-risk-of-harm substantial-risk-of-serious-harm |
1. Whether a prisoner challenging a midazolam three-drug lethal-injection protocol must, as the Sixth Circuit requires, "prove" with "scientific evide… |