Supreme Court of Florida

In death row inmates' all writs petition challenging Florida's lethal injection procedures, brought after complications occurred in the administration of chemicals during an individual's execution on December 13, 2006, the Supreme Court of Florida finds that Florida's current lethal injection procedures, as actually administered, do not violate the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/01/2007
• Published 11/01/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Neal A. Dupree, Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Suzanne Myers Keffer, Roseanne Eckert, Assistant CCRC and Anna-Liisa Nixon, CCRC Staff Attorney, Southern Region, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, Florida, Carolyn M. Snurkowski, Assistant Deputy Attorney General, and Kenneth S. Nunnelley, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, Florida, for Respondent.