Legal Opinion
Robert Charles Towery v Janice K Brewer
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 28, 2012No. 12-15381PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Per curiam
This appeal under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenges Arizona’s execution protocol, adopted as Order 710 of the Arizona Department of Corrections (“ADC”) on January 25, 2012. Robert Charles Towery, Robert Henry Moormann, Pete Rovogich, Thomas Arnold Kemp, Milo McCormick Stanley, and Samuel Villegas Lopez are death row inmates in Arizona who claim that ADC’s execution protocol violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Towery and Moormann, two of the named plaintiffs with impending execution dates, moved the district court for a preliminary injunction against ADC’s use of its current lethal…
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