Advocates for Human Rights, Amicus Curiae
Amy Bergquist, Counsel of Record
Advocates for Human Rights is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and protecting international human rights and the rule of law. Amy Bergquist is a staff attorney for Advocates for Human Rights, where she coordinates advocacy at the United Nations. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on March 16, 2015. Oklahoma’s experimental use of the drug midazolam in its lethal injection protocol creates a substantial risk that Petitioners will be subjected to unnecessary suffering, in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as interpreted in…
