Robert E. Williams v. Frank X. Hopkins, Individually and in His Capacity as Warden of the Nebraska State Penitentiary

HANSEN, Circuit Judge.

Robert E. Williams, a Nebraska prisoner sentenced to die by electrocution on December 2, 1997, appeals the district court’s1 order dismissing as frivolous his civil rights suit, which was filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1994). Williams’ complaint seeks declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief, challenging the constitutionality of death by electrocution in general and, more specifically, the constitutionality of the particular method by which Nebraska allegedly administers the electrical current for electrocutions. We affirm the judgment of the district court.

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