Over a strong dissent led by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the U.S. Supreme Court late Thursday allowed Oklahoma to proceed with the execution of convicted murderer Charles Warner. An hour later, Warner was put to death by lethal injection.
Sotomayor’s dissent was the clearest sign yet that she and three other justices have become increasingly uneasy about the new and sometimes untested drugs being used to carry out lethal injections. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan joined Sotomayor’s dissent.
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