No. 18-8615
IFP
Tags: capital-punishment civil-rights due-process equal-protection establishment-clause execution-protocol first-amendment free-exercise religious-accommodation religious-freedom state-procedure
Latest Conference:
2019-04-26
Question Presented (from Petition)
When a State permits members of some faiths (e.g., Christians) to be accompanied in the execution chamber during the execution by a clergyperson of their faith, does the Constitution or federal statutory law require that members of all faiths be permitted to be accompanied in the execution chamber by a minister of their own faith.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the Constitution or federal statutory law requires that members of all faiths be permitted to be accompanied in the execution chamber by a minister of their own faith when a State permits members of some faiths to be accompanied by a clergyperson of their faith
Docket Entries
2019-04-29
Petition DENIED.
2019-04-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/26/2019.
2019-03-28
Petition for a writ of prohibition and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 29, 2019)
2019-03-28
Application (18A982) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Alito.
2019-03-28
Brief of respondents Bryan Collier, et al.
2019-03-28
Motion of The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty for leave to file amicus brief submitted.
Attorneys
Bryan Collier; Lorie Davis; Billy Lewis
Matthew Dennis Ottoway — Assistant Attorney General, Respondent
Patrick Henry Murphy
David R. Dow — Petitioner
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
Eric Christopher Rassbach — Amicus