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Fifth Circuit: Court May Not Mandate Maximum Heat Index on Louisiana’s Death Row
by Matthew Clarke
On January 31, 2018, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court erred when it mandated a maximum-allowable heat index measure for a Louisiana’s death row. The court upheld the lower court’s finding of an Eighth Amendment violation due to excessive heat and requiring ...
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