The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices laid out a remarkable critique of nitrogen hypoxia executions Thursday, asserting that the new form of capital punishment causes “psychological terror” and “excruciating suffocation” in the condemned and likely violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor led the court’s other two liberal justices in penning a dissent that condemned the use of nitrogen hypoxia in executions. Sotomayor — joined by Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan — wrote the dissent in response to the conservative majority’s Thursday decision to decline a stay of execution

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As the state of Alabama prepared to execute a death row inmate on Thursday with nitrogen gas, the U.S. Supreme Court's three liberal justices in a spirited dissent urged the public to watch the seconds on their smartphone clocks tick all the way to four minutes.

At the high court, the Republican-appointed majority declined to extend him what Sotomayor called “the barest form of mercy”: to die by that alternative firing squad method, which, she wrote, “would kill him in seconds, rather than by a torturous suffocation lasting up to 4 minutes.”

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