No. 23A316
Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Texas
Tags: cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-safety due-process eighth-amendment execution-method lethal-injection
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Question Presented (from Petition)
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Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the Eighth Amendment and state-created liberty interests prohibit executing a prisoner with lethal injection drugs that were exposed to extreme heat in a prison fire without adequate procedural opportunity to develop evidence of the drugs' chemical degradation and resulting risk of severe pain
Docket Entries
2023-10-10
Application (23A316) for stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Alito.
2023-10-10
Application (23A316) referred to the Court.
2023-10-10
Application (23A316) for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Attorneys
Jedidiah Murphy