Gissendaner v. Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Per curiam
Kelly Gissendaner filed in the United States District Court a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint seeking to prevent the State of Georgia from executing her for the murder of Douglas Gissendaner in 1997. She claims that the execution, which is scheduled for later today, will violate the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment for a number of reasons. Earlier this year, we affirmed the dismissal of a similar complaint by her. Gissendaner v. Comm’r, 779 F.3d 1275, 1284 (11th Cir.2015).
Gissendaner’s most recent complaint, filed on March 9, 2015, does contain some variations to her…
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