*** 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 […]
The federal district court in Birmingham, Alabama, has scheduled a hearing on Doyle Hamm’s §1983 challenge to his lethal injection to address the state of Alabama’s motion for summary judgment. The federal court will receive evidence on the risk of significant harm to Doyle Hamm and alternative methods of execution. […]
On January 26, 2018, counsel for Doyle Hamm submitted to the federal court the list of exhibits and exhibits that he intends to introduce at the evidentiary hearing on Wednesday, January 31, 2018, in the federal district court. Counsel included 44 exhibits, listed in the following pleading:
On January 24th, 2018, counsel for Doyle Hamm responded to the state of Alabama’s brief in support of summary judgment. Counsel emphasized that there are numerous issues of material fact that require the federal district court in Birmingham, Alabama, to hold a full trial on his §1983 complaint. The pleading […]
On January 16, 2018, counsel for Doyle Hamm files a major pleading in opposition to the state of Alabama’s motion for summary judgment, arguing that “Alabama’s repeated probing to try out whether it can find a vein when the time comes is about as torturous a run-up to death as […]
After the state of Alabama files affidavits from nurses revealing that they are trying to draw blood from Doyle Hamm almost every other week, in what seems like a cruel effort to remind Doyle constantly of his looming torturous death, counsel for Doyle Hamm files a first amended complaint challenging […]
Yesterday, December 13, 2017, counsel for Doyle Hamm filed a §1983 civil rights complaint with the federal court in Birmingham, Alabama, challenging his execution by lethal injection. The complaint makes clear that the attempt to get venous access for purposes of lethal injection is likely going to lead to a […]
Without even addressing any of Doyle Hamm’s situation with cancer or affording any kind of protection against a botched execution, without even a word to explain what it has decided and why it has decided to set an execution date, the Alabama Supreme Court has set an execution date for […]
“This is not the case of a malingering respondent,” counsel for Doyle Hamm urged on the Alabama Supreme Court. “The medical evidence is clear that Mr. Hamm has been struggling against a serious lymphatic cancer, has received and continues to receive very serious medical treatment, and has very compromised veins. […]
