NEW: Court turns down man’s request to die by firing squad
Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the court’s decision to allow the execution to go forward. In a nine-page opinion joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sotomayor wrote that “Boyd asks for the barest form of mercy: to die by firing squad, which would kill him in seconds, rather than by a torturous suffocation lasting up to four minutes. The Constitution would grant him that grace. My colleagues do not.”
Read more: https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/court-turns-down-anthony-boyd-request-to-die-by-firing-squad/
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