Legal Opinion
Samuel Lopez v. Janice Brewer
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 15, 2012No. 12-16084PublishedCited by 365 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge McKEOWN; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge BERZON.
OPINION
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:
We embark upon this opinion with deja vu, the feeling that we have been here before, but with the knowledge that we will likely be here again. We have entertained, usually at the last minute, a number of challenges to Arizona’s execution protocol. No court has determined the constitutionality of Arizona’s current death penalty protocol, adopted in January 2012, yet we have been asked to address individual provisions of the protocol in the abstract, without a constitutionally firm…
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