រដ្ឋតិចសាស់ និងរដ្ឋ Tennessee គ្រោងនឹងប្រហារជីវិតអ្នកទោសមរណៈចាស់បំផុតរបស់ពួកគេនៅល្ងាចថ្ងៃព្រហស្បតិ៍

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The Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon បានបដិសេធ a 78-year-old Texas man’s last-ditch effort to delay his execution, and the high court រាយការណ៍ also shot down a similar request from a 72-year-old Tennessee man, setting up what could be rare simultaneous executions in the U.S. Thursday evening for both states’ oldest death row inmates.

ការពិតសំខាន់

Carl Buntion, 78, will be put to death by lethal injection inside a Huntsville, Texas, prison some time after 6 p.m. Central time, making him the first person executed in Texas this year.

In Tennessee, 72-year-old Oscar Franklin Smith will die by lethal injection in a procedure starting at 7 p.m. Central time, in the state’s first execution since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

នេះ រដ្ឋ Tennessean, citing Smith’s attorney, reported the Supreme Court denied his request for a stay Thursday afternoon, shortly after Buntion’s request was denied.

The unspecified timing of Buntion’s execution makes it possible the two could take place at the same time.

សាវតាសំខាន់

ស្ម៊ីធ has been on death row since 1990, when he was convicted of stabbing his estranged wife and her two teenage sons to death inside a Nashville home in 1989. Buntion was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 1991 for fatally shooting a Houston police officer during a traffic stop. Smith has maintained his innocence in the triple murder, and his legal team argues there is DNA evidence that would exonerate him of the crime, but requests from his attorneys to reopen the case have been denied. Buntion’s lawyers have argued his advanced age and years of good behavior mean he is no longer a threat to society and should be spared the death penalty.

តង់ហ្សង់។

The Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked the state of South Carolina from executing Richard Moore, who was set to die by firing squad in what would have been the state’s first execution using that method. The court did not state a reason for granting a stay on Moore’s execution, but his legal team argued the state was subjecting Moore to cruel and unusual punishment by forcing him to choose between either a firing squad or the electric chair. Lethal injections, once the dominant method of executions in the U.S., have become more rare as drug companies move to block the sale of drugs used for executions.

អានបន្ថែម

Texas plans Thursday execution for Carl Buntion, the state’s oldest death row prisoner (រដ្ឋតិចសាស់)

Oscar Smith Tennessee execution: Federal judge lets execution go ahead, forbids autopsy (Tennessean)

តុលាការកំពូលនៃរដ្ឋ South Carolina ផ្អាកជាបណ្តោះអាសន្ននូវការប្រហារជីវិតក្រុមបាញ់កាំភ្លើងដំបូងរបស់រដ្ឋ (ទស្សនាវដ្តី Forbes)