When it comes to capital punishment, the court's GOP majority is still eager to expedite executions and reject claims of unconstitutional cruelty out of hand, writes Jordan_S_Rubin.
Thus the experimental nature of Barber's execution, which, with the Supreme Court majority's blessing, went forward before he could get discovery into what happened in the prior botches and what steps the state took to fix its process. Sotomayor said the majority's unexplained decision to side with Alabama let the state "experiment again with a human life."
"The Court should not allow Alabama to test the efficacy of its internal review by using Barber as its 'guinea pig,'" she went on, quoting an 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge'sthat likewise chided the state, and the circuit panel's Republican-appointed majority, for allowing the execution under these circumstances.
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