The Supreme Court's three liberal justices rebuked the majority's early Friday decision to allow the execution of an Alabama death row inmate who raised concerns about the state's record of botched lethal injection procedures.
The high court's 6-3 Republican-appointed majority declined to block James Barber's execution, who was put to death at around 2 a.m. local time."Just last year in Alabama, in three consecutive executions by lethal injection, prison officials spent multiple hours digging for prisoners’ veins in an attempt to set IV lines.
Following the string of consecutive executions in which complications arose, Alabama reviewed its procedures, which were enough to sway the high court's majority and the lower courts for the execution to proceed. Barber, 64, was convicted and sentenced to death for the May 2001 murder of 75-year-old Dorothy Epps after he admitted to killing her with a claw hammer at her home in Harvest, Alabama, and fleeing with her purse.
"Justice has been served. This morning, James Barber was put to death for the terrible crime he committed over two decades ago: the especially heinous, atrocious, and cruel murder of Dorothy Epps," Marshall said in a statement Friday morning, calling on the people of Alabama to join him in"praying for the victim's family and friends."
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