The Supreme Court wants to be executed by firing squad instead. Supported the prisoner. Currently, lethal injection is the only permitted execution method in the state.
Michael Nance was convicted of murder and was sentenced to death in 2002 for shooting a bystander after a 1993 bank robbery. I was sentenced.
Nance said that the sedatives used in the deadly injection protocol could not "make him unconscious" due to the medication taken for back pain, he Claimed that the veins were "severely damaged." Pain and burning sensation.
On the other hand, he argued that the firing squad's execution would lead to a "quick and virtually painless" death.
Judge Elena Kagan in Thursday's opinion, Nance challenges the state's execution method through a civil rights proceeding for a 5-4 majority. I write that I can do it.
"The death penalty is an amendment to Article 8 of the" cruel and unusual "punishment, either on the face or in which the state's planned execution method was applied to him. We may try to show that we are violating the ban. "Cagan wrote.
Judge John Roberts and Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor stood by Cagan.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett disagrees Written, the court "looks too far ahead".
"In my view, the outcome of the salvation that prisoners seek depends on existing state law," Barrett wrote. "And under existing state law, there is no doubt that Nance's challenge inevitably implies invalidity of his lethal injection."
She was joined by Judge Samuel Alito, Judge Clarence Thomas, and Judge Neil Gorsuch.
