Court Opinion

ID: 9499129
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 17:38:29.99454+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:59:18.015949
License: Public Domain

FERGUSON, Circuit Judge,
with whom PREGERSON, Circuit Judge, joins, concurring:
Judge Rymer is correct in setting forth the tortured history of this case. The case creates an issue that denigrates constitutional rights, thus the delay in reaching a decision.
Comer wants to be executed. I maintain that the right to die is not synonymous with the right to kill. Comer’s appointed habeas corpus counsel demonstrated serious due process violations by the judicial system against Comer that must be answered. The most troubling incident being that at his sentencing hearing in state court, Comer was brought into the courtroom battered, shackled, and naked except for a towel over his genitals.