| 24A1279 |
Richard Jordan v. Mississippi State Executioner, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
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alternative-method chemical-paralytic eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam |
Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the use of a three-drug lethal injection protocol that includes midazolam, a chemical paralytic, and potassium … |
| 22-580 |
John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Kenneth Eugene Smith |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (9) |
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… |
| 20-287 |
Ernest Johnson v. Anne L. Precythe, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (12) |
alternative-method bucklew-v-precythe constitutional-claim eighth-amendment legitimate-penological-justification method-of-execution penological-justification summary-judgment |
Whether Bucklew established a categorical rule for dismissing Eighth Amendment method-of-execution claims |
| 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… |
| 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 |
Whether under Glossip v. Gross, inmates raising a facial challenge to one of two methods contained in a State's lethal injection protocol must present… |