No. 23A664

Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama

Lower Court: Alabama
Docketed: 2024-01-19
Status: Denied
Type: A
Tags: cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-attempt iv-access lethal-injection
Key Terms:
Punishment
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

Question not identified.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a state from executing a condemned prisoner after multiple failed execution attempts involving repeated difficulty establishing intravenous access

Docket Entries

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
Application (23A664) for stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Kenneth Eugene Smith
Robert M. GrassArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Petitioner
State of Alabama
Edmund Gerard LaCour Jr.Office of the Attorney General, Respondent