A week that marked the return of capital punishment by the U.S. government after a 17-year hiatus was due to end on Friday with a third planned execution of a federal prisoner.
FILE PHOTO: The execution chamber in the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. Bureau of Prisons/via REUTERS
These arguments have been rejected twice this week in overnight rulings by a 5-4 majority in the Supreme Court. The litigation will continue in the U.S. District Court in Washington with the surviving inmates. Since last year, Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the cases, has ordered injunctions on three occasions delaying the scheduled executions to allow the legal challenges to play out. All three were overruled by the Supreme Court.
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