Down one run in the bottom of the ninth in Game 6, Joe Carter belted a three-run walk-off home run to win the series for Toronto.

“It’s something I envisioned him doing back when he was seven [or] 10 years old in the backyard,” she said.

“Boyd asks for the barest form of mercy: to die by firing squad, which would kill him in seconds, rather than by a tortuous suffocation lasting up to four minutes,” Sotomayor wrote in the dissent fro...