United States Supreme Court

Dismissal of petitioner's challenge to the constitutionality of a three-drug sequence the state of Florida likely would use to execute him by lethal injection is reversed as his claim did not have to be brought as an action for a writ of habeas corpus, but instead could proceed as an action for relief under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 in accordance with Nelson v. Campbell.

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• Decided 06/12/2006
• Published 06/12/2006

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• United States Supreme Court

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