The three liberal Supreme Court justices took aim at their conservative colleagues for allowing the early Friday execution of an Alabama death row inmate who had raised claims about the state's history of botching the lethal injection process.
The Supreme Court allowed the execution of a death row inmate in Alabama, prompting a dissent from the court's liberal justices.Lawrence Hurley
The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, declined to block the execution of James Barber, who was"This court’s decision denying Barber’s request for a stay allows Alabama to experiment again with a human life," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in ajoined by her liberal colleagues, Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
His claim was raised in light of the state's problems executing three inmates last year. Two of those executions, those of Alan Miller and Kenneth Smith, were ultimately called off when prison officials could not access a suitable vein. Another inmate, Joe James, was put to death only after a three-hour delay.
She noted that the court in both the Miller and the Smith cases had overturned lower courts that had put the executions on hold.
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