In Re Schwab

Eleventh Circuit

In Re Schwab

506 F.3d 1369, 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 26145, 2007 WL 3317601

CourtCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

DecidedNovember 9, 2007

Docket07-15258

StatusPublished

Cited by11 cases

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In Re Schwab, 506 F.3d 1369, 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 26145, 2007 WL 3317601 (11th Cir. 2007).

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BY THE COURT:

We have previously affirmed the denial of federal habeas relief to Mark Dean Schwab, a Florida death row inmate. Schwab v. Crosby, 451 F.3d 1308 (11th Cir.2006). Before us now are his application to file a second or successive federal habeas corpus petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b), and a motion for stay of execution in order to permit us time to consider that application. The only claim Schwab wants to raise in a second petition involves the constitutionality of Florida’s lethal injection procedures and protocols.

Even if such a claim were properly cognizable in an initial federal habeas petition, instead of in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 proceeding, see generally Hill v. McDonough, — U.S. -, 126 S.Ct. 2096, 2099, 165 L.Ed.2d 44 (2006); Nelson v. Campbell, 541 U.S. 637, 124 S.Ct. 2117, 158 L.Ed.2d 924 (2004), Rutherford v. McDonough, 466 F.3d 970, 973 (11th Cir.2006) (observing that pre-Nelson circuit law requiring challenges to lethal injection procedures to be brought in a § 2254 proceeding is “no longer valid in light of the Supreme Court’s Hill decision”), this claim cannot serve as a proper basis for a second or successive habeas petition. It cannot because it neither relies on a new rule of constitutional law made retroactive to cases on collateral review by the Supreme Court, 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(A), nor involves facts relating to guilt or innocence, see 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(ii).

Our disposition of the application renders the motion for stay of execution moot.

APPLICATION DENIED; MOTION FOR STAY DENIED AS MOOT.

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BY THE COURT:

We have previously affirmed the denial of federal habeas relief to Mark Dean Schwab, a Florida death row inmate. Schwab v. Crosby, 451 F.3d 1308 (11th Cir.2006). Before us now are his application to file a second or successive federal habeas corpus petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b), and a motion for stay of execution in order to permit us time to consider that application. The only claim Schwab wants to raise in a second petition involves the constitutionality of Florida’s lethal injection procedures and protocols.

Even if such a claim were properly cognizable in an initial federal habeas petition, instead of in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 proceeding, see generally Hill v. McDonough, — U.S. -, 126 S.Ct. 2096, 2099, 165 L.Ed.2d 44 (2006); Nelson v. Campbell, 541 U.S. 637, 124 S.Ct. 2117, 158 L.Ed.2d 924 (2004), Rutherford v. McDonough, 466 F.3d 970, 973 (11th Cir.2006) (observing that pre-Nelson circuit law requiring challenges to lethal injection procedures to be brought in a § 2254 proceeding is “no longer valid in light of the Supreme Court’s Hill decision”), this claim cannot serve as a proper basis for a second or successive habeas petition. It cannot because it neither relies on a new rule of constitutional law made retroactive to cases on collateral review by the Supreme Court, 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(A), nor involves facts relating to guilt or innocence, see 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(ii).

Our disposition of the application renders the motion for stay of execution moot.

APPLICATION DENIED; MOTION FOR STAY DENIED AS MOOT.

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