Case Name: Arthur Dennis RUTHERFORD, Petitioner, v. Charles J. CRIST, Jr., etc., et al., Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2006-10-17
Citations: 945 So. 2d 1113
Docket Number: No. SC06-2023
Parties: Arthur Dennis RUTHERFORD, Petitioner, v. Charles J. CRIST, Jr., etc., et al., Respondent.
Judges: LEWIS, C.J., and WELLS, PARIENTE, QUINCE and CANTERO, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 945
Pages: 1113–1113

Head Matter:
Arthur Dennis RUTHERFORD, Petitioner, v. Charles J. CRIST, Jr., etc., et al., Respondent.
No. SC06-2023.
Supreme Court of Florida
Oct. 17, 2006.

Opinion:
Arthur Rutherford, who is under a pending death warrant, has filed a Petition Seeking to Invoke this Court's All Writs Jurisdiction and a Motion for Stay of Execution, which is scheduled for October 18, 2006. Rutherford's petition concerns the Department of Corrections' denial of a public records request for current lethal injection procedures, followed by the circuit court's denial of a motion to compel production. The State has filed a response to which it has attached the Department's procedures governing execution by lethal injection, effective August 16, 2006. We permitted Rutherford to file a reply.
We deny relief. Our review of the current lethal injection procedures, attached to the State's response, reveals nothing that would cause this Court to revisit our previous conclusions "that procedures for administering the lethal injection as attested do not violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment." Rutherford v. State, 926 So.2d 1100, 1113 (Fla.2006) (quoting Hill v. State, 921 So.2d 579, 583 (Fla.2006), and Sims v. State, 754 So.2d 657, 668 (Fla. 2000)).
Accordingly, Rutherford's petition and motion for a stay of execution are hereby denied. No motion for rehearing will be allowed.
It is so ordered.
LEWIS, C.J., and WELLS, PARIENTE, QUINCE and CANTERO, JJ., concur.
ANSTEAD, J., concurs specially with an opinion.
BELL, J., recused.