Nance v. Ward | |
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Argued April 25, 2022 Decided June 23, 2022 | |
Full case name | Michael Nance v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Docket no. | 21-439 |
Citations | 597 U.S. ___ (more) 2022 WL 2251307; 2022 U.S. LEXIS 3054 |
Argument | Oral argument |
Decision | Opinion |
Holding | |
Section 1983 remains an appropriate vehicle for a prisoner's method-of-execution claim where, as here, the prisoner proposes an alternative method not authorized by the State’s death-penalty statute. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Kagan, joined by Roberts, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kavanaugh |
Dissent | Barrett, joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. amend. VIII |
Nance v. Ward, 597 U.S. ___ (2022), was a United States Supreme Court case related to death row inmates' as-applied challenges to methods of execution.