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 […]
On February 21, 2018, a most distinguished group of Alabama jurists wrote to Governor Kay Ivey to call for mercy in Doyle Hamm’s case. The group included former judges of Alabama’s Supreme Court and appellate court, and former Presidents of the Alabama State Bar Association. The group included former Alabama Supreme Court Justice […]
In another extraordinary moment in this unprecedented litigation over the special protocol needed for Doyle Hamm because of his lymphatic cancer and venous condition, it is the Eleventh Circuit this time that is interjecting itself right into the state’s method of execution. The Eleventh Circuit orders the state of Alabama […]
In a memorandum opinion with the independent medical examination report, the district court denied a stay and allowed the case to move forward. The opinion is attached here
Link: https://www.icomdp.org/2018/02/open-letter-to-governor-of-alabama-ms-kay-ivey/ Governor Bill Richardson and the International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP), an independent body of international political figures, issued a letter addressed to Alabama Governor Kay Ivey expressing “serious concern” with Alabama’s planned execution of Doyle Lee Hamm, scheduled for February 22, 2018. The strongly worded letter, […]
