Middlebrooks v. Parker

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE NASHVILLE DIVISION DONALD MIDDLEBROOKS, ) CAPITAL CASE ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) NO. 3:19-cv-01139 ) TONY PARKER, et al., ) JUDGE CAMPBELL ) Defendants. ) MEMORANDUM Plaintiff, an inmate on death row in the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee, filed a complaint pursuant to

42 U.S.C. § 1983

alleging, among other things, that Tennessee’s default method of execution—lethal injection via a three-drug “cocktail”— constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of his constitutional rights. On initial review…