Question Presented (from Petition)
1. Whether Florida courts violated Cole's Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection rights by failing to hold an evidentiary hearing on his as applied challenge to lethal injection.
2. Whether the Baze-Glossip test violates Cole's Equal Protection and Due Process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by requiring him to allege an alternative method of execution.
3. Whether Florida's lethal injection procedures present a substantial and imminent risk that is very likely to cause Cole needless suffering under Glossip v. Gross, 576 U.S. 863 (2015) and Baze v. Rees, 553 U.S. 35 (2008).
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether Florida courts violated Cole's Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection rights by failing to hold an evidentiary hearing on his as-applied challenge to lethal injection
2024-08-29
Application (24A202) referred to the Court.
2024-08-29
Application (24A202) for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
2024-08-28
Response to application from respondent Florida filed.
2024-08-27
Brief of respondent Florida in opposition filed.
2024-08-27
Reply of Loran Cole submitted.
2024-08-27
Reply of petitioner Loran Cole filed.
2024-08-25
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 25, 2024)
2024-08-25
Application (24A202) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.
2024-08-25
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.