The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Alabama to execute James Edward Barber on Friday morning over the dissent of the court’s three liberal justices, who criticized their colleagues for prioritizing “expeditious executions” and said the state was using Barber as a “guinea pig” for its lethal injection protocol.

At around 1 a.m. Friday, the court denied Barber’s application to stay his execution in an unsigned order. Alabama executed the 64-year-old by lethal injection, the first by the state since it issued a moratorium to review its protocols after a series of botched executions.

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