No. 25A669
Harold Wayne Nichols v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al.
Tags: due-process equal-protection execution-protocol fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution
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Question Presented (from Petition)
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Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause prohibits a state from applying disparate execution protocols to death row prisoners without a rational basis
Docket Entries
2025-12-11
Application (25A669) referred to the Court.
2025-12-11
Application (25A669) for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Kavanaugh and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
2025-12-08
Application (25A669) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Kavanaugh.
Attorneys
Harold Nichols
Luke Parker Ihnen — Federal Defender Services of E. TN, Petitioner