Legal Opinion
LaGrand v. Lewis
District Court, D. Arizona
Decided March 30, 1995No. CV 92-026 TUC JMRPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
ROLL, District Judge.
Pending before the Court is petitioners’ challenge to the constitutionality of lethal injection as a method of execution. This is the last in a series of three orders in which the Court has considered respondents’ motions for summary judgment, filed April 19, 1993. Petitioners’ remaining argument is that this method of execution, which will be utilized in their executions unless petitioners affirmatively choose lethal gas, A.R.S. § 13-704(B), poses too great a risk of extreme pain to the condemned, and must therefore be struck down.
While the Supreme Court has rarely…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Trop v. DullesSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Campbell v. WoodCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1994
- State v. MoenOregon Supreme Court · 1990
- State v. HincheyArizona Supreme Court · 1995
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3Cited by14 opinions
- LaGrand v. StewartCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1998
- Sims v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2000
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- Russell v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 2003
- State v. DickensArizona Supreme Court · 1996
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