Legal Opinion
Stephen Michael West v. Derrick D. Schofield
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided July 2, 2015No. M2014-02478-SC-R10-CVPublishedCited by 27 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · ClarkCornelia A. Clark, J.
in which SHARON G. LEE, C.J., and GARY R. WADE, JEFFREY S. BIVINS, and HOLLY KIRBY, JJ., joined.
We granted this extraordinary appeal to determine whether, in this declaratory judgment action, the death-sentenced inmates’ claims challenging the constitutionality of a 2014 statute that designated electrocution as an alternative method of execution and the constitutionality of electrocution as a means of execution should be dismissed as unripe. Because the death-sentenced inmates are not currently subject to execution by electrocution and will not ever become subject to execution by…
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