Carl Eugene Kelly v. James A. Lynaugh, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent

How courts have described this case

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• stating that this Court has already rejected the argument that lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment even when administered by an unqualified person
• stating that “it is not decisive that the interrogations covered the same crime”
• holding suspect invoked right to remain silent by declining to talk
• finding that failure to give new Miranda warn- ings did not establish Mosley violation because in light of two oral warnings and one written warning given earlier, it would be difficult to conclude that suspect had forgotten his Miranda rights
• 5 hours between first and second interrogation; 4 to 6 hours between the second and third interrogation
• a family member’s plea to the jury that it spare the defendant’s life did not constitute mitigating evidence, as it did “not reflect on [the defendant’s] personal culpability”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).