Adams v. Bradshaw

AMENDED OPINION

SILER, Circuit Judge.

Stanley T. Adams, an Ohio death row inmate, appeals the district court’s order denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We certified two claims for appellate review: (1) whether requiring Adams to wear a stun belt throughout trial denied him a fundamentally fair trial; and (2) whether Ohio’s lethal injection protocol violated the Eighth Amendment. We granted Adams’s motion to hold the case in abeyance pending the resolution of Glossip v. Gross, — U.S. -, 135 S.Ct. 2726, 192 L.Ed.2d 761 (2015), which was decided on June…