LOCKETT v. EVANS

TAYLOR, J.,

with whom WINCHESTER, J. joins, dissenting.,

For the third time in this case, I dissent and urge that this Court transfer all the issues to the Court of Criminal Appeals, In the first and final analysis, all of the Appellant's claims are eriminal in nature, This is a challenge to the method and protocol used in the execution of the death penalty. As I wrote in my second dissent, all these issues are "inextricably intertwined" with criminal procedure and criminal law. This is simply an Eighth Amendment erue!l and unusual punishment challenge to the death penalty. There is nothing new…