“Hamm’s argument is nothing but a bald request for an undetermined delay of his execution,” the Attorney General claimed on October 10, 2017, in a further pleading urging the Alabama Supreme Court to simply set an execution date and ignore the medical evidence regarding Doyle Hamm’s cancer. Replete with inaccurate […]
On October 4, 2017, the Alabama Supreme Court requested that the Alabama Attorney General respond to Doyle Hamm’s latest pleading urging the Court not to set an execution date. The Court’s order is in the Pleadings folder here.
“Based on Dr. Heath’s medical findings and conclusions, and given Mr. Hamm’s cranial and lymphatic cancer, there is a substantial likelihood that the Alabama Department of Corrections will not be able to accomplish a successful execution in compliance with the Eighth Amendment,” counsel argued to the Alabama Supreme Court. In […]
“I have not seen the exact protocol for venous access for lethal injection from the state of Alabama, but based on what I know from the David Nelson case, it is my opinion that the state is not equipped to achieve venous access in Mr. Hamm’s case,” Dr. Mark Heath […]
In Mr. Hamm’s fourth status update filed with the Alabama Supreme Court on September 22, 2017, counsel has detailed Mr. Hamm’s severe cancer, fully reporting on the medical records and diagnoses. The cancer is extremely advanced and well described in the pleading that you can find on the PLEADINGS page.
On September 15, 2017, Doyle Hamm again updated the Alabama Supreme Court on his worsening medical condition and the danger that a lethal injection would cause unconscionable pain. Specifically, counsel explained to the Court that there may be a serious problem of access to his veins. The medical records contain, for […]
On September 8, 2017, Doyle Hamm’s legal team filed his second status update with the Alabama Supreme Court to tell the court about his worsening medical condition. The extensive 777-pages of medical records are clear that Doyle’s cancer and medical condition has taken a turn for the worse since March 2017. […]
Doyle Hamm’s legal team filed its first status update to keep the Alabama Supreme Court abreast of Doyle’s worsening condition. Counsel had sent his law associate, third-year Columbia Law School student Nicola Cohen, CLS ‘18, to Donaldson Correctional Facility to meet with Mr. Hamm in August 2017. Ms. Cohen observed that […]
The Alabama Supreme Court has set a weekly reporting schedule to monitor the medical situation of Doyle Lee Hamm, who is suffering from cancer, through September 30, 2017. Two justices, Michael Bolin and William Sellers, dissented from the order, which suggests that they would have set an execution date. The […]
On August 15, 2017, the state of Alabama filed a reply with the Alabama Supreme Court arguing that the fact that Doyle has cranial and lymphatic cancer should have no bearing on his execution, and that the Court should not delay execution at all even to ensure that his cancer […]