The Supreme Court’s conservative majority called for courts to expedite the execution of convicted murderers in a 5-4 decision
“Courts should police carefully against” challenges to execution procedures inmates raise “as tools to interpose unjustified delay,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the court, suggesting intense frustration with procedural claims that can keep an inmate on death row for decades after.
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