Legal Opinion
Geoffrey West v. Commissioner, Alabama DOC
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 6, 2017No. 17-11536PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge.
This appeal involves four of a group of twelve cases filed in the Middle District of Alabama by death row inmates challenging, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the constitutionality of the State’s lethal injection protocol. 1 In a single order, the District Court dismissed the four cases pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim for relief. We reverse the District Court’s dismissal of the cases and remand them for further proceedings.
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Since July 1, 2002, Alabama has employed lethal injection as its preferred method of executing inmates…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Farmer v. BrennanSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- Rhodes v. ChapmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Helling v. McKinneySupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Randall v. ScottCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2010
- Baze v. ReesSupreme Court of the United States · 2008
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3Cited by24 opinions
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- Stephen Holzman v. Malcolm S. Gerald & Associates, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2019
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- Michael Nance v. Commissioner, Georgia Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2020
- Hamm v. DunnDistrict Court, N.D. Alabama · 2018
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