lethal-injection

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A926 Melvin Trotter v. Florida, et al. Florida 2026-02-19 Denied cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection protocol-violation stay-of-execution Question not identified.
25-6853 Melvin Trotter v. Florida, et al. Florida 2026-02-19 Denied IFP baze-glossip-test cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment lethal-injection maladministration method-of-execution This Court has determined that the Baze-Glossip test applies to all Eighth Amendment method of execution claims. This test has been expanded to encomp…
25-6746 Ronald Palmer Heath v. Florida, et al. Florida 2026-02-06 Denied IFP eighth-amendment lethal-injection maladministration method-of-execution pleading-requirements severe-harm 1. Is a narrowly tailored Eighth Amendment claim based on a State's documented, repeated maladministration of its chosen method of execution subject t…
25-6382 Frank A. Walls v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-16 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment federal-review lethal-injection method-of-execution undue-delay 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying Mr. Walls review, based solely on undue delay, despite the primary basis for his challenge —records r…
25-6317 Harold Wayne Nichols v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution statute-of-limitations 1. Because a method-of-execution-challenge involves a future harm, and not a past harm, lower courts have struggled to determine when the claim accrue…
25A136 Byron Black v. Frank Strada, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. Tennessee 2025-08-01 Denied cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-protocol implanted-cardioverter-defibrillator irreparable-harm lethal-injection Question not identified.
24-7491 Richard Jordan v. Mississippi State Executioner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied IFP chemical-paralytic constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution prisoner-rights 1. In a method-of-execution challenge based on the Eighth Amendment, does this Court's jurisprudence require lower courts to assess the substantiality…
24A1279 Richard Jordan v. Mississippi State Executioner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied alternative-method chemical-paralytic eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam Question not identified.
24-7169 Glen Edward Rogers v. Florida Florida 2025-05-09 Denied IFP capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection post-conviction procedural-rules Glen Edward Rogers is currently facing execution in Florida while suffering from the effects of Porphyria disease, a blood disorder. The state courts …
24-6709 Brad Keith Sigmon v. South Carolina South Carolina 2025-03-05 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process execution-method lethal-injection prisoner-rights statutory-right Does South Carolina's compressed timeline and arbitrary denial of information necessary for a condemned prisoner to exercise his statutory right "neve…
24-5603 Freddie Owens v. Bryan Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied IFP due-process execution-methods informed-choice lethal-injection procedural-rights state-action Question not identified.
24-5389 Loran Cole v. Florida Florida 2024-08-26 Denied IFP baze-glossip-test due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection parkinson's-disease 1. Whether Florida courts violated Cole's Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection rights by failing to hold an evidentiary hearing on hi…
24A159 LeGregory Davis v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-08-09 Presumed Complete capital-punishment constitutional-violation death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection procedural-due-process Question not identified.
23-6830 Thomas E. Creech v. Josh Tewalt, Director, Idaho Department of Correction, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-secrecy lethal-injection Whether it comports with due process for a state to refuse to provide a condemned inmate information about his method of execution that would enable h…
23A664 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2024-01-19 Denied cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-attempt iv-access lethal-injection Question not identified.
23-6517 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2024-01-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia posttraumatic-stress-disorder Does a second attempt to execute a condemned person following a single, cruelly willful attempt to execute that same person violate the prohibition ag…
23A444 David Santiago Renteria v. Texas Texas 2023-11-16 Denied cruel-and-unusual degraded-drugs due-process eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' rejection of petitioner's Eighth Amendment and Due Process Clause claims—based on uncontested evidence th…
23A316 Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Texas Texas 2023-10-10 Denied cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-safety due-process eighth-amendment execution-method lethal-injection Question not identified.
23-5145 James Edward Barber v. Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emotional-anguish execution execution-protocol lethal-injection medical-suffering physical-suffering 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit correctly hold that no amount of physical suffering and emotional anguish imposed by allowing hours-long and countless att…
21-439 Michael Nance v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-22 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Relisted (2) alternative-execution civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus lethal-injection method-of-execution ripeness section-1983 successive-petition 1. Whether an inmate's as-applied method-of-execution challenge must be raised in a habeas petition instead of through a § 1983 action if the inmate p…
20-5243 Warren K. Henness v. Mike DeWine, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-03 Denied Amici (3)IFP alternative-methods cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection medical-aid-in-dying 1. Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically permits the degree of pain caused by hanging—including sensations of drowning and suffocation—or whether…
20-5168 James Wilson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-07-24 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process execution-methods lethal-injection IF PETITIONER'S NAME IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE BODY OF THE INDICTMENT?
19-235 Richard Jordan, et al. v. Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied burden-of-proof civil-rights corrections-department death-penalty discovery discovery-rights due-process eighth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection method-of-execution section-1983 standing 1. Whether the burden of proof demanded by Glossip in method-of-execution challenges requires commensurately broad discovery rights to provide plainti…
19-5561 Stephen Michael West v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied IFP 8th-amendment bucklew-standard bucklew-v-precythe civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution res-judicata section-1983 standing When an inmate's § 1983 challenge to a state's method of execution meets the timeliness and pleading requirements of this Court's decision in Bucklew,…
18A1238 Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam pain-and-suffering Question not identified.
18-9396 Bobby Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment lethal-injection res-judicata section-1983 stay WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN HOLDING THAT MR. LONG WAS NOT ENTITLED TO A STAY BECAUSE OF INEXCUSABLE DELAY IN BRINGING HIS L…
18-8766 Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied IFP appellate-review bucklew-standard civil-rights due-process evidence lethal-injection method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction standing (1) Whether a district court, in deciding a motion for a preliminary injunction, is entitled to make factual findings based on evidence that, even if …
18-1249 Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied compounding-pharmacy cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-protocol lethal-injection midazolam pentobarbital (1) Has an Alabama death row inmate shown that pentobarbital is "available" to the ADOC where he proves that pentobarbital is easily made by any compo…
18-6970 Jose Antonio Jimenez v. Florida Florida 2018-12-10 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland credibility due-process eighth-amendment exculpatory-evidence giglio-v-united-states giglio-violation lethal-injection materiality police-misconduct strategic-choices 1.Whether a defendant's personal knowledge of an exculpatory or favorable fact relieves the State of its duty to disclose evidence in its possession p…
18-6906 David E. Miller v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied IFP coercion cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment ex-post-facto execution-method lethal-injection waiver waiver-of-rights (1) When an inmate alleges that both his original and later-imposed punishments for the same crime violate the Eighth Amendment but the later-imposed …
18-6739 David Earl Miller, et al. v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. Tennessee 2018-11-19 Denied IFP 8th-amendment alternative-method available-alternative due-process facial-challenge fourteenth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection I. Whether under Glossip v. Gross, 135 S. Ct. 2726 (2015), inmates raising a facial challenge to one of two methods contained in a State's lethal inje…
18-6238 Edmund Zagorski v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. Tennessee 2018-10-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment execution-methods execution-protocol feasible-alternative fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection state-secrecy 1. Where the credited, credible, and unassailable evidence at trial proves with certainty that a lethal injection protocol will inflict severe pain an…
18-5240 Roy Lee Ward v. Robert E. Carter, Jr., Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction, et al. Indiana 2018-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection lethal-substances notice prisoner-rights state-execution state-prisoners Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution entitles condemned state prisoners to notice of the letha…
18-5096 Raymond Tibbetts v. John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied IFP baze-v-rees baze-vs-rees eighth-amendment execution-protocol glossip-v-gross glossip-vs-gross lethal-injection midazolam prisoner-rights scientific-evidence substantial-risk substantial-risk-of-harm substantial-risk-of-serious-harm 1. Whether a prisoner challenging a midazolam three-drug lethal-injection protocol must, as the Sixth Circuit requires, "prove" with "scientific evide…
25A669 Harold Wayne Nichols v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied due-process equal-protection execution-protocol fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution Question not identified.
25A698 Frank Walls v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection medical-vulnerability pulmonary-edema Question not identified.
18A1202 Robert Joe Long v. Florida Florida Denied cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment etomidate lethal-injection medical-condition Question not identified.
25A892 Ronald Palmer Heath v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied cruel-and-unusual drug-administration eighth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution protocol-violation Question not identified.
24A753 Steven Lawayne Nelson v. Texas Texas Denied adequate-independent-state-ground certiorari habeas-corpus lethal-injection post-conviction supreme-court-jurisdiction Question not identified.
24A202 Loran Cole v. Florida Florida Denied death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection lethal-injection parkinson's-disease Question not identified.