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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-7305 Stacey Johnson, et al. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied IFP 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-challenge method-of-execution prisoner-rights scientific-consensus severe-pain standing Whether the Eighth Amendment requires a prisoner challenging the method of his execution to show a scientific consensus that the method is sure or ver…