The majority, in a brief unsigned opinion, said Mr. Price had waited too long to raise his claim that Alabama’s method of execution, a lethal injection of three chemicals, could subject him to excruciating pain. Mr. Price asked to be executed using nitrogen gas, a method allowed by Alabama law. The liberal justices, on the other hand, have accused the majority of reckless haste that could give rise to pain amounting to torture. Mr. Price admitted to participating in robbing the couple but claimed that only his accomplice had harmed them. In June, Alabama gave death row inmates 30 days to choose nitrogen hypoxia, which deprives the body of oxygen, as the way they would be executed, and Mr. Price had failed to do so.

Source: New York Times April 12, 2019 13:51 UTC