On Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at 1pm, Doyle Hamm filed his response brief at the Eleventh Circuit opposing the state of Alabama’s emergency motion to vacate the stay. His emergency brief, which had to be heavily redacted because of the confidentiality agreement surrounding the execution protocol, is here:
On Wednesday, February 7, 2018, within 24 hours of Chief Judge Bowdre’s 25-page long memorandum opinion staying Doyle Hamm’s execution, the state of Alabama filed an emergency appeal with the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta, Georgia. The case is now out of Judge Bowdre’s jurisdiction […]
On February 6, 2018, Chief Judge Karon O. Bowdre of the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama issued a 25-page opinion declaring that “based on the record as it currently exists, Mr. Hamm has shown a substantial likelihood of success on the merits, and the court finds that […]
On February 6, 2018, counsel for Doyle Hamm respectfully urged the Governor of Alabama, Kay Ivey, to grant mercy in Doyle’s case and stop his execution by lethal intravenous injection. “I urge you to consider exercising your clemency authority and to grant Doyle Hamm a commutation. Clemency is meant to […]
*** BREAKING NEWS *** On Wednesday evening, January 31, 2018, United States District Judge Karon Bowdre, Chief Judge of the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, granted a stay of the execution of Doyle Hamm scheduled for February 22, 2018. Judge Bowdre ruled from the bench, at the […]
