WILLIAM PRYOR, Chief Judge.
This appeal requires us to decide whether a method-of-execution claim that would have the necessary effect of preventing the prisoner's execution should be brought as a civil-rights action, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, or as a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Michael Wade Nance argues that Georgia...
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