No. 18-5240

Roy Lee Ward v. Robert E. Carter, Jr., Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, et al.

Lower Court: Indiana
Docketed: 2018-07-17
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection lethal-substances notice prisoner-rights state-execution state-prisoners
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: 2018-09-24
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution entitles condemned state prisoners to notice of the lethal substances a state will use to execute them.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment entitles condemned state prisoners to notice of the lethal substances a state will use to execute them

Docket Entries

2018-10-01
Petition DENIED.
2018-08-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
2018-08-03
Waiver of right of respondents Robert Carter, Jr., et al. to respond filed.
2018-07-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 16, 2018)

Attorneys

Robert Carter, Jr., et al.
Stephen Richard Creason — Respondent
Roy Ward
David Wesley FrankChristopher C . Myers & Associates, Petitioner