feasible-alternative

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
18-852 Anne L. Precythe v. Ernest Johnson Eighth Circuit 2019-01-04 GVR administrative-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-method feasible-alternative glossip-v-gross method-of-execution nitrogen-gas pentobarbital pleading-requirements Whether an inmate who demands an alternative method of execution must plead facts detailing the procedure by which his proposed alternative method of …
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…