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· 10/4/2004

Balazinski v. Municipality of Bridgewater Township

Citations

  • 543 U.S. 836

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • vacating and remanding in light of California's adoption of a law allowing condemned prisoners to elect lethal injection as an alternative to lethal gas
  • vacating judgment and remanding for further consideration in light of California's subsequently amended death penalty statute providing that lethal injections should be used to carry out death sentences unless the defendant requests that the State use the gas chamber
  • petition prepared by a prisoner may be inartfully drawn and should be read \with a measure of tolerance\
  • California’s method of execution statute, lethal gas, ruled unconstitutional

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