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    Any bets on which court is going to issue a stay of execution this time?

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    If the 11th Circuit does issue a stay, it will be lifted by SCOTUS.
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    11th already turned down his protocol challenge, don’t see any reason they’d stay him now. I think this one’s solid.
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    Stay sought in April 11 execution of Christopher Lee Price

    By Lawrence Specker
    AL.com

    An attorney for Alabama death row inmate Christopher Lee Price, scheduled for execution April 11, has filed an emergency motion challenging the means of execution.

    Price has long been an opponent of the state’s lethal injection protocol, having attempted to block it as far back as 2014. The motion filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama by Aaron M. Katz takes a two-pronged approach: It argues that the state’s lethal injection protocol, which it plans to use on Price, violates the Eighth Amendment because it carries risk of causing severe pain. And it argues that the state’s refusal to use a new nitrogen hypoxia method in this case denies him the equal protection promised by the 14th Amendment.

    The issue of nitrogen hypoxia takes Price and the state into unexplored territory.

    In 2018, Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill giving inmates the option to choose execution by nitrogen. Nitrogen doesn't kill directly, but causes asphyxiation by preventing a person from taking in oxygen. Other states have approved the method in principle, but none has used it. More importantly, Alabama has yet to show that it has developed a protocol for carrying out a nitrogen hypoxia execution.

    Katz has argued that the Department of Corrections allowed some inmates to choose nitrogen hypoxia in a manner that was "completely arbitrary" and that the state has "created two classes of death row inmates."

    In a filing in early March, Alabama Department of Corrections officials said Price had been given a chance to choose nitrogen.

    In that filing, state officials said that Price and his attorneys had attempted "to portray the ADOC as engaging in cloak-and dagger dealings with a select few inmates, the reality is far more mundane. When Alabama added nitrogen hypoxia to its list of statutorily approved methods of execution in 2018, all inmates whose death sentences were final as of June 1, 2018, were given a thirty-day period from that date to elect nitrogen hypoxia. All death row inmates at Holman Correctional Facility, including Price, were given a copy of an election form, and forty-eight Alabama inmates made a timely election. Price did not."

    Price was convicted in the 1991 robbery and stabbing of Bill Lynn, a minister killed outside his home in the Bazemore community northwest of Jasper three days before Christmas. He was convicted in 1993.

    https://www.al.com/news/2019/03/stay...lee-price.html
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    Surprised he hasn't converted to Judaism yet

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    Don't give him any ideas. I'm sure this current appeal will be thrown out. The 11th Circus Clowns may issue a stay, but SCOTUS will vacate if that happens.
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    Perhaps someone told him what the mohel does with the knife.

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    State responds to Alabama inmate’s request for stay of execution

    The Alabama Attorney General’s Office has responded in a court filing to Christopher Price’s motion for a stay of execution, arguing the execution shouldn’t be called off because the inmate failed to elect an alternate means of execution in a timely matter.

    Price, 46, is set to die by lethal injection on April 11 at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. He was convicted in the 1991 robbery and slaying of Bill Lynn and was sentenced to death by a jury’s vote of 10-2. A judge upheld the jury’s recommendation and sent Price to death row.

    Last week, attorneys for Price filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama asking for a stay of execution. The motion filed Friday argues the state’s three-drug lethal injection cocktail could cause Price severe pain, and also claims the state’s refusal to allow Price to elect the newly approved nitrogen hypoxia method denies him equal protection under the Constitution.

    The AG’s response, filed Tuesday, states Price was given the forms necessary to elect a change of execution method from lethal injection to nitrogen hypoxia last summer, when all other inmates on death row were given the same opportunity. The state says Price neglected to make that election.

    “That counsel failed to keep abreast of relevant developments in a state in which he was actively engaged in litigation concerning a death-sentenced inmate has no bearing on the question of whether the State treated Price differently from other inmates," the filing states. "Price had timely notice, Price could have asked counsel if he wanted a legal consultation, and yet Price sat on his hands for seven months until the State moved to set his execution date.”

    Early last year, Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill giving inmates the option to choose execution by nitrogen hypoxia. According to the state, inmates waiting to be executed were allowed to opt in the nitrogen method if they wished, but had to do so within a 30-day period in June 2018. Of the 177 inmates on Alabama’s Death Row, more than 50 inmates have chosen to die by the new method.

    ADOC Commissioner Jeff Dunn said the department is working with the AG’s Office to develop a protocol for executions by nitrogen hypoxia, but has no timeline on when that protocol might be finalized and ready to implement.

    One of Price’s attorneys argued in a filing the ADOC allowed some inmates to choose nitrogen hypoxia in a manner that was “completely arbitrary” and “created two classes of death row inmates.”

    The state said in its response, “There is nothing irrational about the State setting a time limit for an inmate to choose how he would prefer to be executed. Requesting an execution date is not a matter the State takes lightly, and the [ADOC] must ensure that its equipment and training are up to standard before an execution is carried out. Price offers no time limit in his pleading, and taking his view to the logical end, an inmate could change his mind as to his method of execution up until the moment he entered the death chamber. In other words, conceivably, the ADOC could prepare for a lethal injection but be blindsided by an eleventh-hour nitrogen election.”

    The AG’s Office called the current lawsuit a “meritless delay tactic.”

    Price also was at the center of a lawsuit in 2014 seeking to block the state from setting his execution date, because of what the inmate called a “prolonged, excruciating and needless pain,” caused by the lethal injection drugs.

    Lynn, a minister at Natural Springs Church of Christ, was fatally stabbed outside his home in the Bazemore community three days before Christmas. Court records state Lynn was putting together Christmas presents for his grandchildren, when the power went out. He walked outside to check the power box when he was attacked.

    Lynn died en route to a local hospital. Price was arrested in Tennessee several days later, and was convicted in 1993. Lynn’s wife, Bessie Lynn, was wounded in the attack but survived her injuries.

    https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2...execution.html
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    Stay of execution denied for Alabama death row inmate set to die next week

    A state inmate set to be put to death next week was denied a stay of execution Friday by a Mobile federal judge.

    Christopher Price, 46, was sentenced to death by a jury for the 1991 robbery and killing of Bill Lynch in Fayette County. He has been held in the Holman Correctional Facility since 1993.

    Price sought a stay of execution, claiming the state’s lethal injection cocktail violates his constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment.

    The death row inmate had instead wanted to die by nitrogen hypoxia – a method approved by the state last year – and that denying him that method of death violates his 14th Amendment rights of equal protection.

    But U.S. District Court Judge Kristi K. DuBose noted that Price did not elect to choose nitrogen hypoxia by June 30, 2018 – the date required by state Legislation for death row inmates convicted before June 1, 2018.

    DuBose said Price would have difficulty proving that nitrogen gas is readily available since the state was yet to implement protocols for administering the gas as of the date of her ruling.

    “The court has little evidence as to how nitrogen gas would be administered or how the State might ensure the safety of the execution team and witnesses,” DuBose wrote in her opinion. “Accordingly, the court cannot find, based on the current record, that execution by nitrogen hypoxia may be readily implemented by the state.”

    State Attorney General Steve Marshall argued that Price’s motion for a stay of execution was a “meritless delay tactic.”

    Price has pushed back against his execution before. In 2014, he sued the state to postpone his execution date, claiming lethal injection causes “prolonged, excruciating and needless pain

    Barring a successful appeal, Price is set to die 6 p.m. Thursday.

    https://www.al.com/news/2019/04/stay...next-week.html
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    Inmate asks appeals court for stay ahead of Thursday execution

    By Ivana Hrynkiw
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    An Alabama inmate set to be die Thursday evening has asked an appeals court to stay his execution.

    Christopher Price is set to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore. He was convicted in the 1991 robbery and slaying of Bill Lynn and was sentenced to death by a jury’s vote of 10-2. A judge upheld the jury’s recommendation and sent Price to death row.

    Price had asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama for a stay of execution, arguing the Alabama Department of Corrections’ three-drug lethal injection cocktail could cause Price severe pain during his execution. The 46-year-old also claimed the state’s refusal to allow him to elect the newly approved nitrogen hypoxia method denies him equal protection under the Constitution.

    The Alabama Attorney General’s Office claimed in a filing Price was given the forms necessary to elect a change of execution method from lethal injection to nitrogen hypoxia last summer, when all other inmates on death row were given the same opportunity. The state says Price neglected to make that election. The AG’s Office called the current lawsuit a “meritless delay tactic.”

    Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Kristi DuBose denied the stay of execution and noted Price did not elect to choose nitrogen hypoxia by the cutoff date, and that the gas is not readily available since the state has not yet developed a protocol for those types of executions.

    Price’s appeal to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals was dated Saturday, but made available in court records Monday morning.

    Lynn, a minister at Natural Springs Church of Christ, was fatally stabbed with a knife and sword outside his home in the Bazemore community three days before Christmas in 1991. Court records state Lynn was putting together Christmas presents for his grandchildren, when the power went out. He walked outside to check the power box when he was attacked.

    Records state Lynn suffered 38 cuts, lacerations, and stab wounds, and one of his arms was almost severed. He died en route to a local hospital. His wife, Bessie Lynn, was wounded in the attack but survived her injuries.

    Price was arrested in Tennessee several days after the slaying and was convicted in 1993.

    https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2019/...execution.html

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