Justice O’Connor delivered the opinion of the Court. Three days before his scheduled execution by lethal injection, petitioner David Nelson filed a civil rights action in District Court, pursuant to Rev. Stat. § 1979, 42 U. S. C. § 1983 , alleging that the use of a “cut-down” procedure to access his veins would violate the…
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