Along with his second amended complaint and a Rule 32 state post-conviction petition in circuit court in Cullman County, Doyle Hamm filed today a federal habeas corpus petition challenging any second execution, by any means, as a violation of double jeopardy and the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Counsel […]

In light of the botched execution on February 22, 2018, counsel for Doyle Hamm has amended the §1983 complaint to raise new claims about the unconstitutionality of any other attempted execution, under double jeopardy principles, but also to raise a compelling question under the Baze/Glossip standard: even if there exists no […]

On March 5, 2018, counsel submitted Dr. Mark Heath’s report from his medical examination of Doyle Hamm right after the execution. The accounting is harrowing: Lower extremity puncture wounds (photo 1): 2 Left medial malleolus (photo 2) 2 Right leg, medial aspect, upper calf (photo 3) 1 Right medial malleolus […]