Roger Cohen has a brilliant essay on Doyle and what he went through last week in the New York Times today. It is really worth reading and sharing. Please share widely! Here is the link: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/opinion/death-penalty-alabama-doyle-lee-hamm.html
UPDATE: There has been a lot of news coverage of Doyle Hamm’s botched execution, including here in the New York Times, at NBC, even in the UK Daily Mail. Meanwhile, the federal district court in Birmingham has scheduled our next hearing for Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Here is the order: Dr. […]
Just walked out of Holman Prison with Dr. Mark Heath after a two-plus hours physical examination of Doyle Hamm. Very quickly, Thursday night’s execution was worse than anticipated. While he was strapped down arms and legs to the gurney, the IV personnel simultaneously worked on both legs at the same […]
I spoke with Doyle Hamm by telephone on Friday morning, February 23, 2018, and met with Doyle in person on Friday afternoon. Doyle is in good spirits, but in a lot of pain. He is limping badly and is extremely soar, but as always stoic and trying not to complain. […]
In a pleading filed with the US District Court, new details of the execution were revealed: “Thursday evening, February 22, 2018, beginning at around 9:00PM CST, following the United States Supreme Court denial of his application for a stay at approximately 8:40PM CST, the state of Alabama attempted to execute […]
The US Supreme Court entered a temporary stay to consider Harcourt’s cert petition and application for a stay, but ultimately denied the stay at approximately 8:40PM, over the dissent of Justices Jane Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, and Breyer. Ginsburg and Sotomayor protested that “The District Court and Eleventh Circuit erroneously […]
At 2pm EST, Doyle Hamm filed a petition for writ of certiorari and an accompanying application for a stay, or in the alternative, a supervisory writ with the United States Supreme Court in Washington DC. His case is now in their hands. Doyle is praying for relief, and for justice. […]
In a 17-page opinion issued at 12:30pm EST, the Eleventh Circuit denied Doyle Hamm a stay of execution. The opinion is here:
In a highly dismissive pleading filed late afternoon February 21, 2018, the state of Alabama basically told the Eleventh Circuit that they could go fly a kite: “Yeah, sure, buddy, we can do this!” It was a surprising slap in the face of the Eleventh Circuit. So, for instance, the […]
