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Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Where Do We Draw the Line?

February 28, 2024By Alyssa Fleischer

“The world is watching.”[i] So wrote Justice Sotomayor in her dissent written and released a mere two days before the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia protocol—a drug that the United States Supreme Court has conceded has never been successful. On June 24, 2024, the United States Supreme Court decided not […]

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Running on Fumes: Alabama’s Method of Execution Amendment Continues to Create Novel Litigation

November 18, 2022By Frank Vilaboy

At 9:25 PM on September 22, 2022, Alan Eugene Miller was informed that the U.S. Supreme Court, in an opinion devoid of explanatory reasoning, had overturned two lower courts and allowed the State of Alabama to proceed with his execution. The state would spend between 60 and 90 minutes that night trying to insert a […]

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Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Where Do We Draw the Line?

Running on Fumes: Alabama’s Method of Execution Amendment Continues to Create Novel Litigation