No. 23A316

Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2023-10-10
Status: Denied
Type: A
Tags: cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-safety due-process eighth-amendment execution-method lethal-injection
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

Question not identified.

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
Catherine Clare BernhardLaw Office of Catherine Clare Bernhard, Petitioner