Alabama carried through with the execution of inmate James Barber, who was imprisoned for the murder of an elderly woman 22 years ago.
Liberal justices on the Supreme Court on Friday criticized their conservative-leaning colleagues for allowing the execution of an inmate in Alabama, arguing the state has a history of botching lethal injections.
The court ruled 6-3 late Thursday night in the case of murder James Barber, who was executed early Friday morning.
“This court’s decision denying Barber’s request for a stay allows Alabama to experiment again with a human life,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a dissenting opinion, along with Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Barber had been serving a prison sentence for the murder of an elderly woman 22 years ago.
Before his death, Barber argued that under the Eighth Amendment, he has the right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment.
Scared of a botched execution?!? Here goes the left trying to protect and cater to criminals and murders again. Who cares, I think they should make executions scary and painful. He wants a peaceful and quick death, I say give him the same treatment he gave to that poor old lady. Time to go back to the “eye for an eye” punishment system.
they should at least have a secondary process set to go if the first one fails. always have a backup.
I always think of punishment as something that one survives and takes as a lesson in life, i.e., go forth and sin no more. Death by execution is something different.
You can think what you want 8:33, but a dead man will never kill again. That’s what I know.
NEED ALOT MORE Executions in America & by FIRING SQUAD to be a Deterent !!!!! Time is NOTHING !
It’s been demonstrably proven for decades the death penalty is not a deterrent. It’s not like pro-death penalty states are crimeless utopian. Murders happen at the same rate per capita regardless of death penalty or not.