Muhammad v. Secretary, FL DOC, et al., No. 14-10024 (11th Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CasePlaintiff, convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death, appealed the district court's denial of motions for a stay of execution and applied for a stay of execution with the court. Plaintiff challenged the method of execution in Florida as cruel and unusual under the Eighth Amendment. The court concluded that plaintiff could not establish that he had a substantial likelihood of success on the merits; the Supreme Court of Florida had already decided his Eight Amendment claim; and res judicata barred his federal complaint. Therefore, the district court did not abuse its discretion when it denied the motion to stay the execution and the amended motion to stay the execution. The court also denied plaintiff's application for a stay of execution.
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