HAMM v. DUNN

2:17-cv-02083-KOB.

302 F.Supp.3d 1287 (2018)

Doyle Lee HAMM, Plaintiff, v. Jefferson S. DUNN, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections; Cynthia Stewart, Warden, Holman Correctional Facility; Leon Bolling, III, Warden, Donaldson Correctional Facility; Other Unknown Employees and Agents, Alabama Department of Corrections, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Southern Division.

Signed February 6, 2018.

Editors Note
Applicable Law: 42 U.S.C. § 1983
Cause: 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Prisoner Civil Rights
Nature of Suit: 550 Prisoner: Civil Rights
Source: PACER


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard E. Harcourt , Columbia Law School, New York, NY, for Plaintiff.

Beth Jackson Hughes , Thomas R. Govan, Jr. , Office of the Attorney General, Montgomery, AL, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

Doyle Hamm challenges the constitutionality of Alabama's method of execution, not generally, but as applied to him. (Doc. 15 at 1-2). As the Supreme Court of the United States has repeatedly said, "because it is settled that capital punishment...

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