Legal Opinion
Zagorski v. Parker
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided October 11, 2018No. 18-6238Relating-toCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice KAGAN and by her referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Justice SOTOMAYOR, with whom Justice BREYER joins, dissenting from denial of application for stay and denial of certiorari.
Once again, a State hastens to kill a prisoner despite mounting evidence that the sedative to be used, midazolam, will not prevent the prisoner from feeling as if he is "drowning, suffocating, and being burned alive from the inside out" during a process that could last as long as 18 minutes. Irick…
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