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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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Morales v. Hickman

3:06-cv-00219 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Jan. 11, 2006

On January 11, 2006, several inmates at the state prison at San Quentin filed lawsuits under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the California Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs, all of whom were scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, alleged that their constitutional rights were threatened, arguing that lethal injection was cruel and unusual punishment that violated the Eighth Amendment. They further argued that pancuronium…
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Alderman v. Donald

1:07-cv-00896 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: April 20, 2007

On April 20, 2007, attorneys representing a Georgia state prisoner awaiting imposition of his death sentence filed a civil complaint on his behalf in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Plaintiff's counsel included attorneys from private firms in New York and Atlanta, as well as from the Georgia Resource Center, affiliated with the Georgia State University College of Law. Relying on 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the complaint alleged that the prisoner's Fifth, Eighth and Fourtee…
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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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Pacific News Service v. Woodford

3:06-cv-01793 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: March 8, 2006

Closed Date: 2017

On March 8, 2006, the Pacific News Service filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the California Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants had violated the constitutional rights of the press and the public to attend, meaningfully observe, and gather and report on important information at executions being carried out by the defendants at t…
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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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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…
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Johnson v. Little

3:06-cv-00946 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Oct. 4, 2006

Closed Date: 2013

On October 4, 2006, a death-sentenced inmate of the Riverbend Maximum Security Prison in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Tennessee Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. The State of Tennessee allows death-sentenced prisoners who committed their crimes prior to 1999 to choose their method of execution - lethal injection or the electric chair. Plaintiff complained to the Court that both …
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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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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…