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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA

No. 213PA10
(FILED 7 OCTOBER 2011)

JERRY W. CONNER, JAMES A. CAMPBELL, JAMES EDWARD THOMAS, MARCUS
ROBINSON, and ARCHIE LEE BILLINGS, Petitioners
v.
NORTH CAROLINA COUNCIL OF STATE, Respondent
On discretionary review pursuant to N.C.G.S. ' 7A-31, prior
to a determination by the Court of Appeals, of an order dismissing
petitioners. petition for judicial review and denying and dismissing
petitioners. declaratory judgment action entered on 14 May 2009 by
Judge Donald W. Stephens in Superior Court, Wake County.  Heard in
the Supreme Court on 14 March 2011.
Center for Death Penalty Litigation, by David Weiss, for petitioner-appellants; and Kevin P. Bradley for petitioner-appellant Billings; Kenneth J. Rose, E. Hardy Lewis, and Mark J. Kleinschmidt for petitioner-appellant Conner; Elizabeth F. Kuniholm for petitioner-appellant Campbell; Michael R. Ramos and Geoffrey W. Hosford for petitioner-appellant Robinson; and Ann Groninger and Robert E. Zaytoun for petitioner-appellant Thomas.  
Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Thomas J. Pitman, Special Deputy Attorney General, and Joseph Finarelli, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent-appellee.
JACKSON, Justice.
Petitioners in this action are inmates who have been sentenced to death by lethal injection.  Respondent is the North Carolina Council of State (

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