lethal-substances

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6036 David Santiago Renteria v. Texas Texas 2023-11-16 Denied IFP due-process executioner lethal-substances life state-law torture Does a State deprive a person of life without due process of law when it delegates to its executioner unchecked discretion to ignore a state law prohi…
18-5240 Roy Lee Ward v. Robert E. Carter, Jr., Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, et al. Indiana 2018-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection lethal-substances notice prisoner-rights state-execution state-prisoners Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment entitles condemned state prisoners to notice of the lethal substances a state will use to e…