No. 23-6517
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama
IFP
Tags: constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia posttraumatic-stress-disorder
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Question Presented (from Petition)
Does a second attempt to execute a condemned person following a single, cruelly willful attempt to execute that same person violate the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Does a second attempt to execute a condemned person following a single, cruelly willful attempt to execute that same person violate the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
Docket Entries
2024-01-24
Petition DENIED.
2024-01-24
Application (23A664) referred to the Court.
2024-01-24
Application (23A664) for stay of execution of sentence of death submitted to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
2024-01-23
Reply of applicant Kenneth Eugene Smith filed.
2024-01-22
Response to application from respondent Alabama filed.
2024-01-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.
2024-01-18
Application (23A664) for stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.
Attorneys
Kenneth Eugene Smith
Robert M. Grass — Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Petitioner