September 15, 2017 | Doyle Hamm Files Third Status Update
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,...
View ArticleSeptember 22, 2017 | Counsel Updates the Alabama Supreme Court on Mr. Hamm’s...
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...
View ArticleOctober 2, 2017 | Counsel Submits Medical Report to Alabama Supreme Court
“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...
View ArticleOctober 2, 2017 | Counsel Urges Alabama Supreme Court Not to Set an Execution...
“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...
View ArticleOctober 4, 2017 | Alabama Supreme Court Asks Attorney General to Respond
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...
View ArticleOctober 10, 2017 | Attorney General Pushes for Execution Date Again and...
“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...
View ArticleOctober 11, 2017 | Doyle Hamm Pleads Again for a Proper Protocol for Venous...
“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...
View ArticleDecember 13, 2017 | Alabama Supreme Court Summarily Sets Execution Date for...
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...
View ArticleDecember 14, 2017 | Doyle Hamm Files §1983 Civil Rights Complaint in...
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...
View ArticleJanuary 16, 2018 | Doyle Hamm Filed First Amended Complaint
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...
View ArticleJanuary 16, 2018 | Doyle Hamm Files Opposition to Motion for Summary Judgment
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...
View ArticleJanuary 24, 2018 | Doyle Hamm Files Surreply in Federal Court in Birmingham,...
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...
View ArticleJanuary 26, 2018 | Doyle Hamm Files his Evidence with the Federal Court in...
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...
View ArticleHearing Scheduled for January 31, 2018, in Federal Court in Birmingham, Alabama
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...
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FEDERAL COURT IN BIRMINGHAM GRANTS STAY OF EXECUTION
*** 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...
View ArticleDoyle Hamm Pleads for Mercy with Governor of Alabama Kay Ivey
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...
View ArticleFederal Court in Birmingham Issues 25-page Opinion Granting Stay of Execution
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....
View ArticleAlabama Attorney General Files Emergency Appeal at Eleventh Circuit...
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...
View ArticleFebruary 13, 2018 | Doyle Hamm Files Emergency Brief Opposing Motion to Vacate
On Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at 1pm, Doyle Hamm filed his response brief at the Eleventh Circuit opposing the state of Alabama’s emergency motion to vacate the stay. His emergency brief, which had to...
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