Justice Sotomayor Issues Scathing Dissent to Trump's 13th Execution

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“This is not justice,” she wrote

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, Sotomayor said that the court has frequently bypassed its usual process to allow these executions to occur. She wrote, “Over the past six months, this Court has repeatedly sidestepped its usual deliberative processes, often at the Government’s request, allowing it to push forward with an unprecedented, breakneck timetable of executions.”

Sotomayor also noted that the court did not sufficiently consider that Higgs was recently diagnosed with Covid-19, which has been spreading like wildfire through the prison system. The damage to his lungs caused by the virus combined with a lethal injection of pentobarbital, she said, would cause him to feel like he is drowning, a sensation she said would be “akin to waterboarding.

As Sotomayor concluded, “This is not justice. After waiting almost two decades to resume federal executions, the Government should have proceeded with some measure of restraint to ensure it did so lawfully. When it did not, this Court should have. It has not. Because the Court continues this pattern today, I dissent.”

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Trump appointed and McConnell's Senate confirmed 1/3 of the Supreme Court and 1/4 of the federal judiciary. We will see scathing dissents for many years to come.

Nothing “scathing” at all about the Wise Latina’s dissent. Just warmed over liberalism decades old. Stale and uninspiring.

Liberal doesn’t like capital punishment... Thanks for ground breaking news...

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