WARD v. CARTER

Court of Appeals Case No. 46A03-1607-PL-1685.

79 N.E.3d 383 (2017)

Roy Lee WARD, Appellant-Plaintiff, v. Robert E. CARTER, Jr., Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Correction, and Ron Neal, Superintendent of the Indiana State Prison, in their official capacities, Appellees-Defendants.

Court of Appeals of Indiana.

June 1, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ATTORNEY FOR APPELLANT: David W. Frank , Christopher C. Myers & Associates, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE: Curtis T. Hill, Jr. , Attorney General of Indiana, Stephen R. Creason , Chief Counsel, Indianapolis, Indiana.


Roy Lee Ward is an Indiana inmate on death row. In 2014, the Department of Correction (DOC) internally adopted a new method of lethally injecting inmates; the new method includes a cocktail of drugs that has never been administered in an execution in the United States. Ward filed a claim seeking injunctive and declaratory relief, arguing...

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