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HILL v. HOPPER

No. 97-6306.

112 F.3d 1088 (1997)

Walter HILL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Joe S. HOPPER, Commissioner of Alabama Department of Corrections, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 17, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry J. Fisher, Palmer Singleton, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Beth Jackson Hughes, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Montgomery, AL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before HATCHETT, Chief Judge, and COX and BLACK, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Appellant Walter Hill, an Alabama inmate convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death, challenges on appeal the district court's dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 assault upon the constitutionality of electrocution as a means of execution. The State of Alabama intends to execute Hill by means of electrocution on May 2, 1997. On March 31, 1997, Appellant Hill filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama...

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