Hamm v. Dunn

KARON OWEN BOWDRE, CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Doyle Hamm challenges the constitutionality of Alabama's method of execution, not generally, but as applied to him. (Doc. 15 at 1-2). As the Supreme Court of the United States has repeatedly said, "because it is settled that capital punishment is constitutional, it necessarily follows that there must be a constitutional means of carrying it out." Glossip v. Gross , --- U.S. ----, 135 S.Ct. 2726, 2732, 192 L.Ed.2d 761 (2015) (quotation marks omitted). But the Eighth Amendment forbids cruel and unusual punishment, creating tension between…