The United States Supreme Court allows an Alabama prisoner to be executed with lethal gas

The Supreme Court of USA gave the reason this Monday to a prisoner of Alabama that he has asked to be executed with gas, instead of the lethal injection that the state authorities had ordered for him.

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The prisoner, sentenced to death for the murder of a woman in 1988, asked that the method of its execution for the pain it would cause injectioncollects the American network NBC.

An appeals court of Atlanta (Georgia) ruled in favor of the defendant in November, and later the authorities of Alabama They took the case before the Supreme Court.

The judges of the highest judicial instance in the country decided not to accept the case, for which reason they upheld the ruling of the court of Atlanta.

However, two of its most conservative magistrates, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alitoindicated that they would have ruled in favor of Alabama.

On previous occasions, the Supreme it has not allowed changes in the methods of execution of prisoners sentenced to death, arguing that the sentence does not guarantee a death without pain.

According to an analysis of more than 200 autopsies Conducted by the American public radio NPR, lethal injections produce in most cases acute pain and a sensation of suffocation in the prisoner, which leads him to suffer panic and terror before death.

according to the group Death Penalty Information Centerwhich analyzes capital punishment cases in the country, there have been 11 executions of prisoners in USA so far in 2023, 5 of them in Texas3 in Florida2 in Missouri and one in Oklahoma.

Source: Elcomercio

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