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State v. Perry

Citations

  • 610 So. 2d 746
  • 1992 WL 427862

How courts have described this case

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  • holding unconstitutional the state’s plan to administer antipsychotic drugs as part of a lethal injection protocol
  • finding that forcible medication was ordered \solely\ to implement prisoner's execution
  • finding that forcible medication was ordered “solely” to implement prisoner’s execution
  • forbidding, under Louisiana constitution, “forcible medication of a prisoner merely to improve his mental comprehension as a means of rendering him competent for execution”
  • forbidding, under Louisiana constitution, \forcible medication of a prisoner merely to improve his mental comprehension as a means of rendering him competent for execution\
  • refusing to accept State’s “manufactured” justification that forcibly medicating capital inmate into competence was appropriate because it also made inmate less dangerous

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Judges: Dennis

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