Court Opinion

ID: 9518819
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 01:02:49.008862+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:36:44.426497
License: Public Domain

GREGORY, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
For the reasons set forth in my dissent in Emmett v. Johnson, 532 F.3d 291, 308-12 (4th Cir.2008) (Gregory, J., dissenting), I believe that the Emmett majority erred in summarily concluding that the Virginia legal injection protocol is substantially similar to the Kentucky legal injection protocol upheld in Baze v. Rees, — U.S. —, 128 S.Ct. 1520, 170 L.Ed.2d 420 (2008). However, I am constrained by our precedent in Emmett, and thus I must concur in the judgment in this case.