Hill v. Owens

HINES, Justice.

This case concerns the management of prisons and inmates in Georgia, and its effects potentially sweep broadly across that subject. Specifically, this case concerns who is legally authorized to select the drug or drugs to be used in executions in Georgia and how that choice may be made. However, this case could also affect the remaining myriad of management decisions made throughout Georgia’s prison system, and this case concerns when those decisions must be made directly by the Board of Corrections in its policy-making role versus when they may be left to the…