Washington, May 15 (EFE)
The prisoner, sentenced to death for the murder of a woman in 1988, asked that the method of his execution be changed because of the pain that the injection would cause him, reports the American chain NBC.
An appeals court in Atlanta (Georgia) ruled in favor of the defendant in November, and later the Alabama authorities took the case before the Supreme Court.
The judges of the highest court in the country decided not to accept the case, so they upheld the ruling of the Atlanta court.
However, two of its most conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, indicated that they would have ruled in favor of Alabama.
On previous occasions, the Supreme Court has not allowed changes in the methods of execution of prisoners sentenced to death, arguing that the sentence does not guarantee a death without pain.
According to an analysis of more than 200 autopsies carried out by the American public radio NPR, lethal injections produce in most cases acute pain and a sensation of suffocation in the prisoner, which leads him to panic and terror before death.
According to the Death Penalty Information Center group, which analyzes capital punishment cases in the country, there have been 11 executions of prisoners in the US so far in 2023, 5 of them in Texas, 3 in Florida, 2 in Missouri and one in Oklahoma.
