Supreme Court rejects Alabama death row inmate's lethal gas claim

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The small number of states that routinely execute people generally use the lethal injection procedure but have faced challenges to obtaining the necessary drugs.Smith's lawyers and death penalty opponents have said there are risks in using the method including the possibility of Smith being left in a vegetative state or choking on his own vomit.
43% : In 2019, the court ruled against a convicted murderer in Missouri seeking to die by lethal gas instead of lethal injection because of a rare medical condition, saying that prisoners were not guaranteed "a painless death.
38% : The Supreme Court in May last year rejected an earlier attempt to put Smith to death by lethal injection.
37% : The Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, is generally skeptical of last-minute stay requests brought by death row inmates and has also made it more difficult for prisoners to bring challenges to the method of execution.

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