Jones v. Hobbs

OPINION AND ORDER

J. LEON HOLMES, District Judge.

Jack Harold Jones, Don W. Davis, Alvin Bernal Jackson, Kenneth Dewayne Williams, Stacey Eugene Johnson, Jason Farrell McGehee, and Bruce Ward brought this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that Arkansas’s recently enacted Methods of Execution Act 1 (“MEA”) violates the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the ex post facto clause in Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution. The Court dismissed the complaints without prejudice for failure to state a claim upon which relief…