Loran Cole v. State of Florida

Summary

The court affirmed the summary denial of Cole’s fourth successive postconviction motion, concluding that all three substantive claims were untimely, procedurally barred, or legally insufficient. The court held that a recently enacted compensation program did not constitute newly discovered evidence, that Cole’s prison-conditions claim could not support vacatur of his death sentence, and that his as-applied lethal-injection challenge failed under the governing method-of-execution standard. The court also affirmed denial of Cole’s public-records requests and denied a stay of execution and oral argument.