Legal Opinion
Williams v. Hobbs
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 7, 2011No. 10-1573, 10-2899PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
Several Arkansas prisoners on death row challenged the state’s Method of Execution Act (the Act) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 arguing that it violates the ex post facto clause and their due process right to access the courts. The district court 1 dismissed the prisoners’ claims, finding that their arguments were merely speculative, that they had access to Arkansas’s current execution protocol, and that they could submit a FOIA request to obtain information on future protocols. In this consolidated appeal the prisoners argue that the district court erred in dismissing their ex…
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