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. Grass — Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Petitioner
State of Alabama
Edmund Gerard LaCour Jr. — Office of the Attorney General, Respondent