Legal Opinion
Arthur v. Thomas
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 21, 2012No. 11-15548PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Per curiam
Thomas D. Arthur, an Alabama state prisoner sentenced to death, appeals the dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint alleging that Alabama’s method of executing inmates by lethal injection violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and the separation of powers required by Article III of the Alabama Constitution. Arthur’s execution is currently scheduled to take place on March 29, 2012.
Arthur instituted this challenge1 to Alabama’s lethal injection procedure when Alabama announced in 2011 that it would switch from using sodium thiopental to pentobarbital as the…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Bell Atlantic Corp. v. TwomblySupreme Court of the United States · 2007
- Baze v. ReesSupreme Court of the United States · 2008
- Arthur v. KingCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2007
- McNair v. AllenCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2008
- Arthur v. AllenCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2006
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3Cited by68 opinions
- David Zink v. George LombardiCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2015
- Carey Dale Grayson v. Warden, Commissioner, Alabama DOCCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2017
- Thomas D. Arthur v. Kim Tobias ThomasCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2014
- Jessie Hoffman v. Bobby JindalCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2013
- Larry Eugene Mann v. John PalmerCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2013
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