Posted on 01/27/2022 7:41:02 PM PST by Az Joe
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday night for the state of Alabama to execute an inmate who contended that an intellectual disability combined with the state's inattention cost him a chance to avoid lethal injection and choose a new method.
The nation's highest court upheld a state request to lift a lower court order that had blocked prison workers from executing Matthew Reeves. The state said earlier that it was prepared to execute Reeves, 43, by lethal injection at Holman Prison if notified to proceed. The execution was originally scheduled at 6 p.m. CST.
Reeves was sentenced to die for the murder of Willie Johnson, who was killed by a shotgun blast to the neck during a robbery in Selma on November 27, 1996, after picking up Reeves and others on the side of a rural highway.
After the dying man was robbed of $360, Reeves, then 18, went to a party where he danced and mimicked Johnson’s death convulsions, authorities said. A witness said Reeves’ hands were still stained with blood at the celebration, a court ruling said.
“Say his name!”
I’M VERY glad you did!
9:31 p.m.: Matthew Reeves has been executed by the state of Alabama. His time of death was 9:24 p.m. and he had no final words.
Sounds like someone that needs to be put down. Should have been done years ago.
Good riddance to bad trash.
I hope Willie Johnson's family got to mimic the death convulsions of the POS.
His method of execution should have been a shotgun blast to the neck.
The left: “He shouldn’t have to have the jab!” ;)
Barrett wanted to allow him to live. Along with Kagan, Sotomeyer, and Bryer.
What gets me is how serial and mass killers are still alive.
Fyi, their names are Sotomayor and Breyer.
Also, Barrett didn’t join the dissenting opinion that Kagan wrote. The order just says she would have denied the application. We don’t know why.
Confusing writing in article.
Cannot tell that is the case.
Forgive me Lord, but I hope that there were death convulsions
I always find it interesting that the ONLY time the left brings up black IQ is when they are trying to keep a black murderer from being executed. Any other time it is brought up they call it “racist” and “untrue”.
Never said that she joined the opinion. I stated that she was in favor of letting the inmate stay alive.
Thanks for the spell check. Good to see you're on top of your grammar nazi game.
You are welcome.
Barrett sides with the three commies on the court, being on the losing side of a 5-4 decision to execute some scumbag.
Not lookin’ good.
The only positive thing is I think she wrote a separate concurrence rather than join Kagan’s dissent.
After November 8th 2022, you are going to see many, many more authorized executions. American Bastille day is coming.
Your going to need a mile deep trench to store all the bodies of the coup plotters. /spit.
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