United States Eighth Circuit

A district court's judgment, holding that Missouri's lethal injection protocol for imposing a death sentence is unconstitutional, is reversed as the court of appeals finds no wanton infliction of cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/04/2007
• Published 06/04/2007

Judges

• HANSEN, Circuit Judge., Before RILEY, BEAM, and HANSEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James R. Layton, Asst. Atty. Gen., argued, Jefferson City, MO (Michael Pritchett and Stephen D. Hawke, Missouri Atty. General's Office, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ginger D. Anders, argued, Washington, DC (C. John Pleban and Lynette M. Petruska, St. Louis, MO, Donald B. Verrilli Jr. and Matthew S. Hellman, Washington, DC, on the brief), for appellee.