This is NOT a dispute over whether someone is to be executed. It's whether SCOTUS should reverse two lower courts that agreed to pause a lethal injection for an illiterate prisoner who prefers to die via nitrogen hypoxia but couldn't read the form giving him that option.
https://twitter.com/stevenmazie/status/1486874452210200578
And five justices intervened to make sure the cognitively impaired prisoner is put to death immediately rather than in a few weeks.
That's where we are.
That's where we are.
Reeves's lawyer: “The immense power of the State should be used to help its citizens, not to prevent them from exercising their rights. The immense authority of the Supreme Court should be used to protect its citizens, not to strip them of their rights without explanation."
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This @slate piece I wrote nearly three years ago on Roberts's quiet role in the Court's death-penalty jurisprudence is, unfortunately, evergreen slate.com/news-and-polit…
Update: at 9:24 central time tonight, Alabama executed Matthew Reeves by lethal injection.
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