nitrogen-hypoxia

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25-5928 Anthony Boyd v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied IFP comparative-analysis cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia When performing a comparative analysis to determine whether an alternative means of execution would significantly reduce a substantial risk of severe …
25A457 Anthony Boyd v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied asphyxiation cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction When performing a comparative analysis to determine whether an alternative means of execution would significantly reduce a substantial risk of severe …
24-5993 Carey Grayson v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied IFP conscious-suffocation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia superadded-terror 1. Does the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment bar a method of execution that includes conscious suffocation? 2. Does the…
23-6562 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-protocol nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction ptsd-trauma standing Did the Eleventh Circuit deviate from established precedent when it affirmed the denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction on the ground that hi…
23A688 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-method fourteenth-amendment nitrogen-hypoxia Whether the State of Alabama's planned execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith using nitrogen hypoxia—a method never before attempted by any State or the fe…
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…
22-580 John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Kenneth Eugene Smith Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Relisted (9) alternative-method comity death-penalty eighth-amendment feasibility finality method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia In an Eighth Amendment method-of-execution case, is an alternative method of execution feasible and readily implemented merely because the executing S…
21-6055 Willie B. Smith, III v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied IFP accommodation ada ada-accommodation civil-rights cognitive-disability due-process execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia prison-rights standing statutory-deadline What is the threshold of evidence required for a cognitively disabled petitioner to establish that his need for accommodation was obvious under the AD…
19-7880 Nathaniel Woods v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied IFP arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-discrimination arbitrary-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia suppressed-information 1. Does the Eighth Amendment apply only to imposition of a death sentence, as the Eleventh Circuit held, or may a petitioner challenge, as arbitrary a…
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 …
24A498 Carey Grayson v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit Denied capital-punishment conscious-suffocation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia Question not identified.