execution-attempt
3 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24A688 | Thomas Creech v. Idaho | Idaho | 2025-01-14 | Presumed Complete | botched-execution cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-attempt resweber-precedent | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a second execution attempt after a botched first attempt that poses a substantial risk of serious harm or cruel… | |
| 23A664 | Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama | Alabama | 2024-01-19 | Denied | cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-attempt iv-access lethal-injection | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a state from executing a condemned prisoner after multiple failed execution attempts involving repeated difficu… | |
| 20-6419 | Romell Broom v. Tim Shoop, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Dismissed | IFP | clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-attempt habeas-corpus robinson-v-california section-2254 sentencing supreme-court-precedent trop-v-dulles | Is Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947) the clearly established United States Supreme Court precedent, for purposes of 28 U.S.C.… |