Legal Opinion
Powell v. Thomas
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 15, 2011No. 11-12613PublishedCited by 123 opinions
1Per curiam
Eddie Powell is currently on death row in Alabama. 1 He is scheduled for execu tion by lethal injection on Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. On May 13, 2011, Powell filed this civil rights action in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, contending that the Alabama Department of Corrections’ (“ADOC”) recent change from sodium thiopental to pentobarbital as the first of three drugs used in the lethal injection protocol constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment and violates his rights protected by the…
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