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Wood v. Ryan

2:14-cv-01447 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 26, 2014

On June 26, 2014, multiple residents and citizens of Arizona subject to the death penalty filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs sued the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) and multiple state officials associated with the organization under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. With the representation of private counsel and the Federal Public Defenders Office, the plaintiffs claimed violations of the First Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause, …
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Hoffman v. Jindal

3:12-cv-00796 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 2012

Closed Date: Nov. 1, 2022

This case is about whether the State of Louisiana had sufficient procedures by which to execute individuals sentenced to death. On December 20, 2012, an individual who had received the death penalty filed this lawsuit, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. Represented by private counsel and a non-profit impact litigation organization, he sued the Governor of Louisiana, the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections ("DPSC") and …
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Sims v. California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation

CIV 1004019 | California state trial court

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2010

Closed Date: May 30, 2013

On August 2, 2010, a person incarcerated in San Quentin Prison and sentenced to death challenged the protocol used for execution. Specifically, the plaintiff alleged that one of the drugs (pancuronium bromide) used in a three-drug formula was “unnecessary and dangerous" and only increased the risk of excruciating pain. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiff sought declarative and injunctive relief in the Marin County Superior Court to prohibit use of the drug. The plaintiff, as well as t…
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Abdur'rahman v. Parker

18-183-II | Tennessee state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 20, 2018

Closed Date: May 13, 2019

Abu Ali Abdur'rahman and a group of more than 30 other Tennessee death row inmates filed this action against the state's Commissioner of Corrections in Davidson County Chancery Court on February 20, 2018. The complaint alleged that Tennessee adopted a new lethal injection protocol that permitted the use of two procedures. One procedure involved only the chemical pentobarbital, while the other procedure involved a combination of midazolam, vecuronium bromide, and potassium chloride. The plaintif…
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Timberlake v. Buss [Donahue]

1:06-cv-01859 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: Dec. 29, 2006

Closed Date: 2008

On December 29, 2006, a prisoner at the Indiana State Prison sentenced to the death penalty filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Indiana Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The plaintiff alleged that his constitutional rights were threatened by the defendants' use of thiopental, potassium chloride, and pancuronium bromide during lethal injection, which he believed would leave him conscious and subjected to extreme pain and tor…
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Schwab v. Florida

SC07-1603 | Florida state supreme court

Filed Date: 2007

Closed Date: June 25, 2008

Schwab was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, sexual battery of a child, and kidnapping after murdering eleven-year-old Junny Rios–Martinez in April 1991, and he was sentenced to death. The Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush, suspended executions on December 13, 2006, after a botched injection led to an investigation of the procedures. Governor Charlie Crist lifted the moratorium when he signed Schwab's death warrant on July 13, 2007, lifting the ban. Schwab's execution was set for Novem…
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Nooner v. Norris

5:06-cv-00110 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: May 1, 2006

Closed Date: Aug. 5, 2008

On May 1, 2006, an inmate awaiting execution at the Supermax Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction filed this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Represented by the Federal Public Defender, the inmate claimed that the procedures used to carry out lethal injections in Arkansas—specifically the use of potassium chloride in the lethal cocktail of drugs—risked unnecessary conscious suffering in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The…
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Cooey v. Taft

2:04-cv-01156 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: June 10, 2004

On June 10, 2004, two death-sentenced inmates at the Mansfield Correctional Institution in Mansfield, Ohio, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. They asked the Court to stay their executions and issue an injunction against the defendants' use of their current lethal injection protocol, which they alleged would violate their Constitutional rights by torturing them to deat…
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Jones v. Hobbs

CV-2010-1118 | Arkansas state trial court

Filed Date: March 8, 2010

On March 8. 2010, a prisoner scheduled to be executed in Arkansas, filed an action against the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) in the Circuit Court for the County of Pulaski. The Plaintiff, represented by the Federal Defenders, sought an injunction against the state prohibiting his execution, claiming that the Arkansas Method of Execution Act (MEA), violated the state constitution. Specifically, the plaintiff claimed that the MEA's removal of standards for lethal injection and 'menu-st…
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Taylor v. Jones

5:05-cv-00825 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: July 20, 2005

Closed Date: 2009

On July 20, 2005, two death-sentenced inmates of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Oklahoma Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. Anderson and Taylor complained to the Court that the lethal injection procedure used by the defendants during executions violated the Constitution by inflicting enormous amounts of pain on the executed prisoner. Specifically, they claimed th…