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Challenge to Three-drug Execution Protocol Revived by Eleventh Circuit

by David M. Reutter

On September 1, 2017, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals revived civil rights claims brought by four Alabama death row prisoners. Their lawsuits challenged the state’s current three-drug execution protocol, arguing that the use of midazolam as the first drug would subject them to “intolerable pain” ...

 

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