Burgess v. California

Parentheticals

• noting that every court to address this issue has upheld the constitutionality of execution by lethal injection

  State v. McKinney

• treatment below the standard of care for a given condition is not enough alone to make out a claim of deliberate indifference

  John Walker v. Dr. Ivy Benjamin, Dr. Adrian Feinerman, Dr. Ansar Ansari, Dr. Virgilio Pilapil, Pamela Dunbar and Vickie Rowland

• private physicians whose employer held contract with state prison system to provide medical services for inmates could assert qualified immunity

  Ronnie Lee McKnight v. John Rees, Daryll Richardson and John Walker

• petitioner must show not possibility of prejudice, but actual prejudice which worked to his disadvantage and infected his trial with constitutional errors

  Johnson v. Cowan