Price v. Dunn
Petition for certiorari denied on May 13, 2019
Issue: (1) Whether an Alabama death row inmate has shown that pentobarbital is "available" to the Alabama Department of Corrections when he proves that pentobarbital is easily made by any compounding pharmacy, multiple states are presently able to obtain the drug for use in executions and the ADOC failed to undertake "ordinary transactional efforts" to obtain the drug; and (2) whether, if a state"s lethal-injection protocol will cause the inmate to experience gruesome and brutal pain, the state is entitled to proceed with the execution anyway, merely because the state cannot immediately obtain alternative drugs known to be effective in accomplishing a humane lethal-injection execution.
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| Date | Proceedings and Orders |
|---|---|
| 03/26/2019 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 26, 2019) |
| 04/09/2019 | Brief of respondents Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. in opposition filed. |
| 04/19/2019 | Reply of petitioner Christopher Lee Price filed. |
| 04/23/2019 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/9/2019. |
| 05/13/2019 | Petition DENIED. Justice Thomas, with whom Justice Alito and Justice Gorsuch join, concurring in the denial of certiorari. (Detached Opinion) |