United States Fifth Circuit

An inmate's request for a stay of his execution brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 challenging the method of execution by injection as administered in Texas as cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment is denied as untimely.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/20/2006
• Published 06/21/2006

Judges

• PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DAVIS and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard Alley, Robert Franklin Ford, Fort Worth, TX, for Reese.


• For Appellees:
  
• Tina J. Dettmer, Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.