chemical-paralytic

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7491 Richard Jordan v. Mississippi State Executioner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied IFP chemical-paralytic constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution prisoner-rights Whether a method-of-execution challenge requires comparing the proposed lethal injection protocol to known alternative methods under the Eighth Amendm…
24A1279 Richard Jordan v. Mississippi State Executioner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied 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 …