The Supreme Court stayed the execution Thursday night of an Alabama inmate who had been scheduled to die by lethal injection. In September, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that the state’s death penalty system was constitutional and unaffected by the Florida ruling. (Florida, meanwhile, rewrote its death penalty statute after the Supreme Court ruling, but the Florida Supreme Court struck down the new setup last month and said it is still unconstitutional.) The Supreme Court did not agree, and that inmate was executed in the first lethal injection in Alabama since 2013. The Supreme Court in May was also asked to weigh in after a federal appeals court stayed an execution in Alabama.

Source: National Post November 04, 2016 19:13 UTC