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WOOD v. COLLIER

No. 16-20556.

836 F.3d 534 (2016)

Jeffery WOOD; Rolando Ruiz; Robert Jennings; Terry Edwards; and Ramiro Gonzales, Plaintiffs-Appellants v. Bryan COLLIER, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice; Lorie Davis, Director, Correctional Institutions Division, Texas Department of Criminal Justice; James Jones, Senior Warden; and Unknown Executioners, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED September 12, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael John Biles, Esq. , Attorney, Jill Rickershauser Carvalho , King & Spalding, L.L.P., Austin, TX, Maurie Levin , Philadelphia, PA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Jeremy Craig Greenwell, Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Postconviction Litigation Division, Prerak Shah , Senior Counsel, Office of the Attorney General for the State of Texas, Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DENNIS, and ELROD, Circuit Judges.

In 2012, Texas adopted its current execution protocol: a single, five-gram dose of pentobarbital to induce death. Five men convicted of murder and sentenced to die by lethal injection ask this Court to stay their impending executions based on an earlier and separate case between Texas and two death row prisoners...

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