Legal Opinion

Miller v. Parker

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided December 6, 2018No. 18-6906Relating-to

1Opinion of the Court

The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice SOTOMAYOR and by her referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

Justice SOTOMAYOR, dissenting from denial of application for stay and denial of certiorari.

Tennessee is scheduled to electrocute David Miller tonight. Miller is the second inmate in just over a month who has chosen to die by the electric chair in order to avoid the State's current lethal injection protocol. See Zagorski v. Haslam , 586 U.S. ----, 139 S.Ct. 20 , --- L.Ed.2d ---- (2018) (SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Glossip v. GrossSupreme Court of the United States · 2015
  2. In Re KemmlerSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  3. McGehee v. HutchinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 2017
  4. Zagorski v. HaslamSupreme Court of the United States · 2018
  5. Irick v. TennesseeSupreme Court of the United States · 2018

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