On August 15, 2002, a prisoner of the State of Georgia filed a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. §1154 against the Georgia Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiff alleged that his constitutional rights were threatened by ...
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On August 15, 2002, a prisoner of the State of Georgia filed a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. §1154 against the Georgia Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The plaintiff alleged that his constitutional rights were threatened by the use of lethal injection, which he claimed to be cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The plaintiff also claimed that he had been subject to ineffective assistance of counsel.
On September 30, 2005, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (Judge Orinda Dale Evans) denied the plaintiff's request, holding that he had not been subject to ineffective assistance of counsel and that his constitutional rights were not threatened by lethal injection. Crowe v. Terry, 426 F.Supp.2d 1310 (N.D.Ga. 2005). The plaintiff appealed. On June 27, 2007, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (Judge William Holcombe Pryor, Jr.) affirmed the district court's decision. Crowe v. Hall, 490 F.3d 840 (11th Cir. 2007).
Our Pacer docket, which is accurate as of August 28, 2007, records no further activity in this case.
Kristen Sagar - 08/28/2007
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