Legal Opinion
Fierro v. Gomez
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 21, 1996No. 94-16775PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs, three California inmates sentenced to death, brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The inmates alleged that California’s method of execution, lethal gas, constitutes cruel and unusual punishment and thus violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the federal Constitution. The United States District Court for the Northern District of California held that, to the extent that the statute provides for execution by lethal gas, it is cruel and unusual punishment. Defendants James Gomez, Director of the California Department of Corrections, and Arthur…
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