Raby v. Livingston
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:
Charles Raby is a Texas prisoner under death sentence. Raby filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, asserting that Texas’ method for lethal injection violates his right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment guaranteed by the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision upholding lethal injection in Kentucky in Baze v. Rees, 553 U.S. 35, 128 S.Ct. 1520, 170 L.Ed.2d 420 (2008), the district court denied Raby’s Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(f) motion for a continuance to permit further discovery regarding the administration of…
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