Nance v. Ward

Nance v. Ward
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 25, 2022 Decided June 23, 2022
Full case name	Michael Nance v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al.
Docket no.	21-439
Citations	597 U.S. ___ (more) 2022 WL 2251307; 2022 U.S. LEXIS 3054
Argument	Oral argument
Decision	Opinion
Holding
Section 1983 remains an appropriate vehicle for a prisoner's method-of-execution claim where, as here, the prisoner proposes an alternative method not authorized by the State’s death-penalty statute.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan · Neil Gorsuch Brett Kavanaugh · Amy Coney Barrett
Case opinions
Majority	Kagan, joined by Roberts, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kavanaugh
Dissent	Barrett, joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. VIII

Nance v. Ward, 597 U.S. ___ (2022), was a United States Supreme Court case related to death row inmates' as-applied challenges to methods of execution.