Update : The Supreme Court has narrowly ruled in favor of a condemned Georgia inmate who has requested death by firing squad because he has a medical condition that would make.
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Update: The Supreme Court has narrowly ruled in favor of a condemned Georgia inmate who has requested death by firing squad because he has a medical condition that would make lethal injection a long and extremely painful process. In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled that Michael Nance could proceed with a civil rights lawsuit challenging the execution method, Fox reports. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who wrote the dissent, argued that because firing squads aren’t currently a legal execution method in Georgia, Nance’s lawsuit “necessary implies the invalidity of his lethal injection sentence.
