Divided court authorizes Alabama execution, but state is unable to carry it out before midnight deadline

Divided court authorizes Alabama execution, but state is unable to carry it out before midnight deadline

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The Supreme Court on Thursday night cleared the way for Alabama to carry out a lethal injection of an inmate who argued that he had the right to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia, a method that supporters say is more humane. In an unsigned order that divided the justices 5-4, the court lifted an order by a federal judge that would have required the state to use nitrogen hypoxia to execute Alan Eugene Miller. But the state called off … Read the rest