legitimate-penological-justification

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20-287 Ernest Johnson v. Anne L. Precythe, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Relisted (12) alternative-method bucklew-v-precythe constitutional-claim eighth-amendment legitimate-penological-justification method-of-execution penological-justification summary-judgment In Bucklew v. Precythe, 139 S. Ct. 1112 (2019), this Court held, at the summary judgment stage and on the record in that case, that the State had a le…