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Georgia Executes Prisoner After SCOTUS Denies Firing Squad Request

HeadlineMay 17, 2017

In more news from Georgia, prison officials killed 45-year-old death row prisoner J.W. Ledford with a lethal dose of the barbiturate pentobarbital early Wednesday, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the method of the execution. Lawyers argued there was a high risk the injection would not render Ledford fully unconscious, exposing him to an unconstitutionally cruel and unusual death. The high court rejected that motion and denied Ledford’s request to be executed by firing squad.

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