Legal Opinion
Powell v. Thomas
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 19, 2011No. 11-12238PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Per curiam
Jason Williams is currently on death row in Alabama. 1 He is scheduled to be executed at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 19, 2011. In late April, the Alabama Department of Corrections (“ADOC”) announced plans to alter its lethal injection protocol for Williams’s execution. Specifically, it would be replacing the first drug in its lethal injection protocol — sodium thiopental — with another anesthetic — pentobarbital. That decision resulted from a heavily publicized, nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental. Alabama, along with a number of other states, selected pentobarbital as a replacement to…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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