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Jul 28 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Joe Nathan James, due to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday, has asked #SCOTUS for a stay of execution in a brief, pro se filing at the court after lower courts had denied his requests. The SCOTUS docket # is 22A74.
Breaking: #SCOTUS will not stop Alabama's planned execution of Joe Nathan James tonight. There were no noted dissents.
To put this back in the thread, there is an unexplained delay in (at least) the media witnesses returning from tonight’s scheduled execution of Joe Nathan James in Alabama. This is a non-witness reporter on site:
The repeated inability of states to properly carry out executions is completely ignored by #SCOTUS in its allowing of state-sanctioned killings to continue.
It’s now past 10p ET/9p CT, and no word out of Alabama regarding the scheduled execution of Joe Nathan James. The media witnesses have been gone for more than 2.5 hours.
Well, I look forward to the post-execution review of Alabama DOC’s protocol.
DOC’s pull this shit every time.
The likely path: We’ll get nothing from the DOC tonight, something that only tells us part of the story from the media witnesses (through no fault of their own), and then information will trickle out in the days (or weeks) that follow until a the governor calls for a review.
Or, as Robin says, we’ll just not know.
Alabama has executed Joe Nathan James, per the state’s governor.
Absolutely unacceptable.

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