Death row inmate Matthew Reeves claims he lost a chance to avoid lethal injection and choose a less “torturous,” yet untried, method.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The U.S. Supreme Court considered Thursday whether to let Alabama execute a death row inmate who claims an intellectual disability combined with the state’s inattention cost him a chance to avoid lethal injection and choose a less “torturous,” yet untried, method.
Meanwhile, the state said it was preparing to execute Reeves, 43, by lethal injection at Holman Prison in case the court allowed it to go forward as scheduled at 6 p.m. CST. Reeves was sentenced to die for the murder of Willie Johnson, who was killed by a shotgun blast to the neck during a robbery in Selma on Nov. 27, 1996, after picking up Reeves and others on the side of a rural highway. Eighteen at the time, Reeves went to a party and celebrated the killing afterward, evidence showed.After the dying man was robbed of $360, Reeves danced and mimicked Johnson’s death convulsions at a party, authorities said.
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