pentobarbital

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…
18-852 Anne L. Precythe v. Ernest Johnson Eighth Circuit 2019-01-04 GVR administrative-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-method feasible-alternative glossip-v-gross method-of-execution nitrogen-gas pentobarbital pleading-requirements Inmates who wish to challenge a method of execution under the Eighth Amendment must plead and prove an alternative method that is "feasible, readily i…