conscious-suffocation
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-5993 | Carey Grayson v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-19 | Denied | IFP | 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? |
| 24A498 | Carey Grayson v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | Denied | capital-punishment conscious-suffocation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits executing a prisoner via nitrogen hypoxia in a manner that potentially causes conscious suffocation and superad… |