BREAKING: #SCOTUS denies stay of execution to Ronald Smith Jr. in Alabama on 4-4 vote. https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/alabama-execution-ronald-smith?utm_term=.elJO0Yz21K#.qmE4renqJ0 …pic.twitter.com/iH2GCo0YIs
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#SCOTUS DENIES motion for reconsideration in Roland Smith's case. Stay is vacated; AL execution can proceed. https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/alabama-execution-ronald-smith?utm_term=.ebG6GPMWKp#.icqJGPdRX9 …pic.twitter.com/nnmHhrTglu
After all that: The Supreme Court, on a 4-4 vote, allowed an execution to proceed tonight. The motion for reconsideration was for naught.
No justices noted a dissent to the denial of stay as requested in the motion for reconsideration — a fact we can now ponder the meaning of.
[Error in an earlier tweet: It is Ronald Smith, not Roland. Apologies.]
JUST IN: Ronald Smith Jr.'s attorneys have filed a request at #SCOTUS for a stay of execution regarding Alabama's method of execution.pic.twitter.com/bJmHl2D8F6
Here's is the method of execution stay request, which would be an appeal out of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3234856/16A570-SCOTUS-Application-for-Stay-of-Execution-LI.pdf …
Breaking: Justice Thomas denied the lethal injection challenge-related stay request. The request was not referred to the full court.
Fully updated report on tonight's 4-4- split #SCOTUS on whether an Alabama execution can proceed:https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/alabama-execution-ronald-smith?utm_term=.bl6NoW95zY#.vm8B9N2r1j …
Alabama has executed Ronald Smith Jr. Half of the Supreme Court wanted to halt it; 7 of 12 jurors recommended life.https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/alabama-execution-ronald-smith?utm_term=.bhV5ew5WP#.pggGZnGl9 …
on a 4-4 vote. Law school didn't equip me to explain the ethics of this.
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