WEST v. SCHOFIELD

No. M2015-01952-SC-RDM-CV.

519 S.W.3d 550 (2017)

Stephen Michael WEST, et al. v. Derrick D. SCHOFIELD, et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

Filed March 28, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen M. Kissinger , pro hoc vice, and Helen Susanne Bales , Assistant Federal Community Defenders, Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellants, Stephen Michael West, Nicholas Todd Sutton, Larry McKay, and David Earl Miller.

Gene Shiles, Jr. , and William J. Rieder , Chattanooga, Tennessee, for the appellant, Billy Ray Irick.

Kelley J. Henry , Supervisory Assistant Federal Public Defender, and Michael J. Passino , Assistant Federal Public Defender, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellants Edmund Zagorski, Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman, Charles Wright, Don Johnson, David Keen, Andre Bland, Kevin Burns, James Dellinger, David Ivy, Byron Black, Pervis Tyrone Payne, William Glen Rogers, Oscar Smith, Stephen Hugueley, Kennath Henderson, Jon Hall, Andrew Thomas, Henry Hodges, Gerald Lee Powers, Tony Carruthers, and Donald Middlebrooks.

Kathleen Morrison , Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellants, Lee Hall, Jr., Nikolaus Johnson, David Jordan, Richard Odom, and Corinio Pruitt.

Herbert H. Slatery III , Attorney General and Reporter; Andrée S. Blumstein , Solicitor General; Jennifer L. Smith , Associate Solicitor General; Scott C. Sutherland , Deputy Attorney General; and Linda D. Kirklen , Assistant Attorney General, for the appellees, Derrick Schofield, Wayne Carpenter, Tony Mays, Jason Woodall, Tony Parker, and John Doe Physicians, Pharmacists, Medical Examiners, Medical Personnel, and Executioners.


OPINION

The Plaintiffs, each convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death,1 brought this declaratory judgment action seeking to have declared facially...

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