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JONES v. STATE

No. 90231.

701 So.2d 76 (1997)

Leo Alexander JONES, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

October 20, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory C. Smith, Capital Collateral Regional Counsel-Northern District and Gail E. Anderson, Assistant Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Tallahassee, Martin J. McClain, Litigation Director, Office of Capital Collateral Regional Counsel, Southern District, Miami, for Petitioner.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General and Richard B. Martell, Chief, Capital Appeals, Tallahassee, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM.

Leo Alexander Jones, at a time when he was under warrant of death, filed a petition to invoke this Court's all writs jurisdiction, seeking a determination of whether electrocution in Florida is cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and cruel or unusual punishment under article I, section 17 of the Florida Constitution.

In addition to arguing that execution per se is cruel and unusual...

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