Court Opinion

ID: 9796452
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 03:57:41.488954+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:50:18.971586
License: Public Domain

C. JOHNSON, Viee-Presiding Judge,
Specially Concurring.
T1 I concur in the result reached by the majority. I write separately to emphasize that Petitioner has not presented any controlling or persuasive legal precedent to support his claim that the execution of a terminally-ill prisoner constitutes cruel or unusual punishment. In my view, Petitioner's situation does not present a legal basis for invalidating his death sentence. Rather, these kinds of cireumstances are more properly considered in the realm of executive clemency.
T2 I am authorized to state that Judge Arlene Johnson joins in this Special Coneur-rence.