| 18-8332 |
Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman, et al. v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tennessee |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
cross-examination discovery due-process execution-method execution-secrecy method-of-execution prisoners-rights privileged-communications standing state-officials state-secrecy |
Does a state deprive condemned prisoners of due process when, to defeat a challenge to the state's method of execution, state officials rely on and th… |
| 18-6530 |
Edmund Zagorski v. Bill Haslam, Governor of Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-protections constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-challenges due-process involuntary-waiver method-of-execution procedural-technicalities state-secrecy stewart-v-lagrand |
Did Glossip v. Gross modify centuries-old jurisprudence prohibiting involuntary waiver of constitutional protections in the context of method of execu… |
| 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… |