Update (Thursday, Oct. 25): The full Eleventh Circuit has granted rehearing en banc and vacated the panel opinion and stay but issued its own stay. Judges Carnes and Pryor, formerly of the Alabama AG's office, are recused.

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The Eleventh Circuit has stayed the execution of serial murderer Daniel Siebert, scheduled for Thursday. The order is here. The per curiam opinion (apparently reflecting the views of Judges Barkett and Wilson), cites the pending Supreme Court case of Baze v. Rees. Judge Tjoflat disclaims any reliance on Baze. His concurrence is based on Siebert's unusual claim that lethal injection would be cruel as applied to him, given his conditions of hepatitis C and pancreatic cancer.

A separate capital case in which Siebert is sentenced to death for another murder is on the Supreme Court's conference list for Friday. Docket here.