Legal Opinion
OWENS Et Al. v. HILL
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided May 19, 2014No. S14A0092PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HINES, Presiding Justice.
This case presents the question of whether it is unconstitutional for the State of Georgia to maintain the confidentiality of the names and other identifying information of the persons and entities involved in executions, including those who manufacture the drug or drugs to be used.1 We hold that it is not, and we reverse the ruling of the Superior Court of Fulton County in which it granted an interlocutory injunction prohibiting the execution of Warren Lee Hill with a drug from a confidential source in order to consider that question.
Hill was convicted of murdering a…
2Cases cited37 opinions
- Farmer v. BrennanSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- Bounds v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Helling v. McKinneySupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior Court of Cal., County of RiversideSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Baze v. ReesSupreme Court of the United States · 2008
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3Cited by34 opinions
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- Richard Jordan v. Georgia Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2020
- Marcus A. Wellons v. Commissioner, Georgia Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2014
- Lue, Mayor v. EadySupreme Court of Georgia · 2015
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