Legal Opinion
Woods v. Buss
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 9, 2007No. 07-2001PublishedCited by 162 opinions
1Per curiam
David Woods is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on May 4, 2007 at 12:01 A.M. by the State of Indiana. He challenges Indiana’s method of lethal injection. The district court denied Woods’ motion for a preliminary injunction and denied him a stay of execution. We affirm the district court’s decision denying Woods’ motion for preliminary injunction. We deny his request for a stay of execution.
I. HISTORY
On April 7, 1984, David Woods stabbed to death a 77 year-old man in order to steal $130 in cash and a television that Woods later resold for $20. Woods v. McBride, 430 F.3d 813, 815-16…
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