A Georgia man sentenced to death for malicious murder can proceed with his Eighth Amendment lawsuit to stop the state from using lethal injections to end his life, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said.
Michael Wade Nance, who asked to be executed by firing squad as an alternative to lethal injection, made a plausible claim that taking the drug gabapentin reduced his brain’s susceptibility to sedatives, so that he would experience severe pain if he was lethal would be executed. said the court.
The Commissioner of Georgia’s Department of Corrections argued that the state should have a…
