JOSEPH R. WOOD, III, PETITIONER,

v.

CHARLES L. RYAN, DIRECTOR, ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Arthur v. Comm'r, Ala. Dep't OF Corr., Warden, 840 F.3d 1268 (11th Cir. 2016)
  …., dissenting) (remarking that “Tennessee recently reauthorized the use of the electric chair as an alternative method of execution” due to concerns about the unavailability of “the drugs necessary to perform a lethal injection”), vacated, — U.S. -, 135 S.Ct. 21, 189 L.Ed.2d 873 (2014); Distanislao, Note, 49 U. Rich. L. Rev. at 804-05 (“[A]mid ... widespread drug shortages, capital punishment is losing its position as a functional element of American society.”). In fact, Arthur himself proffered to the dis…
• Boyd v. Warden, Holman Correctional Facility, Attorney General of Alabama, Jefferson S. Dunn, 856 F.3d 853 (11th Cir. 2017)
  …eople employed by [a] state who can pull the trigger [for a firing-squad execution] and have the training to aim true. [And t]he weapons and ammunition are bought by the state in massive quantities for law enforcement purposes.”), vacated, — U.S. -, 135 S.Ct. 21, 189 L.Ed.2d 878 (2014). A conclusion to the contrary would strain credulity. Firing-squad executions were carried out in this country as early as the nineteenth century. See Wilkerson, 99 U.S. at 134-36. Surely Alabama has the capacity in the age…
• Jones v. Comm'r, Ga. Dep't OF Corr., Warden, Ga. Diagnostic & Classification Prison, Other Unknown Emps. & Agents, 811 F.3d 1288 (11th Cir. 2016)
  …g motion for stay of execution in state court. On Januaiy 29, 2016, Georgia’s superior court denied both motions. . We recognize that the Ninth Circuit addressed a similar claim in Wood v. Ryan, 759 F. 3d 1076, 1077-78 (9th Cir.), vacated, - U.S. -, 135 S.Ct. 21, 189 L.Ed.2d 873 (2014). There, the prisoner sought information from the Arizona Department of Corrections regarding the method of his execution, and argued that by withholding this information, the Department had violated his First Amendment righ…

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