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 […]
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 […]
