United States Eleventh Circuit

On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, plaintiff death row inmate's section 1983 claim, that Florida's lethal injection execution procedure constituted cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments since a) the first drug administered may allow plaintiff to remain conscious and suffer severe pain, b) the second drug paralyzed his lungs, and c) the third drug caused cramping and a fatal heart attack, may proceed, and thus the district court's decision is vacated, and the case is remanded.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/29/2006
• Published 08/29/2006

Judges

• BY THE COURT:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and TJOFLAT and PRYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• D. Todd Doss, D. Todd Doss, P.A., Lake City, FL, for Hill.


• For Appellees:
  
• Carolyn M. Snurkowski, Fla. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, FL, for Appellees.