Supreme Court Approves Alabama Lethal Injection Execution
The Supreme Court has overturned lower court rulings that blocked the execution of Matthew Reeves, granting Alabama's request to lift the injunction and clearing the way to execute Reeves by lethal injection.
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The Supreme Court has overturned lower court rulings that blocked the execution of Matthew Reeves, granting Alabama’s request to lift the injunction and clearing the way to execute Reeves by lethal injection, reports The Hill. A U.S. District Court granted Reeves a stay of execution, ruling that he could not be put to death until the state could use nitrogen hypoxia and a federal appeals court sided with the district court, ruling that Reeves was not given a chance to properly choose his execution method.
A dissent written by Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer said the Supreme Court should have let the decision of the lower courts stand. “The Court has no warrant to reweigh the evidence offered below. And it has no other basis for reversing the detailed findings the District Court made to support the injunction. Nor is the Court’s action in any way necessary to enable Alabama to carry out its capital sentence,” Kagan wrote in the dissent.
