Gomez v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1992-04-21

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Per Curiam. Robert Alton Harris brought a 42 U. S. C. § 1983 action claiming that execution by lethal gas is cruel and unusual in violation of the Eighth Amendment. This action is an obvious attempt to avoid the application of McCleskey v. Zant, <a href="/opinion/112573/mccleskey-v-zant/" aria-description="Citation for case: McCle…

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