McGehee v. Hutchinson

Summary

Justice Breyer dissented from the Court’s denial of both the application for a stay of execution and the petition for a writ of certiorari. He argued that Arkansas’s rapid schedule of eight executions in eleven days raises serious constitutional concerns, including the arbitrary selection of inmates and the potential that the compressed schedule amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. Breyer would have granted the stay and the certiorari to allow the Court to resolve these issues.