execution-methods
3 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-5603 | Freddie Owens v. Bryan Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-20 | Denied | IFP | due-process execution-methods informed-choice lethal-injection procedural-rights state-action | Whether South Carolina's refusal to provide information about execution drugs violates a death row inmate's due process rights when choosing a method … |
| 20-5168 | James Wilson v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2020-07-24 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process execution-methods lethal-injection | Whether the petitioner's manner of execution is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment |
| 18-6238 | Edmund Zagorski v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. | Tennessee | 2018-10-09 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment execution-methods execution-protocol feasible-alternative fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection state-secrecy | Where the credited, credible, and unassailable evidence at trial proves with certainty that a lethal injection protocol will inflict severe pain and m… |