The United States Supreme Court declined to allow Alabama to proceed with an execution using nitrogen gas on Thursday. The decision follows a ruling from a lower court which determined that the execution method is unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court's action prevents the state from lifting an injunction that had been placed on the procedure. Nitrogen gas is the newest execution method implemented in the United States.
According to reports from the Guardian, experts have decried the method as brutal and heinous. The legal challenge over the use of nitrogen gas has created a showdown regarding the state's ability to carry out the execution.
Newsmax reported that the Supreme Court's refusal to let Alabama proceed came specifically after the lower court's ruling on the unconstitutionality of the method.
The current status of the execution remains blocked pending the resolution of the legal disputes regarding the constitutionality of nitrogen gas as a method of capital punishment.
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