Supreme Court allows Alabama execution to proceed

Published October 4, 2017 9:52pm ET



The Supreme Court decided Wednesday to allow the execution of an Alabama man, vacating a federal appeals court’s injunction of the execution.

An 11th Circuit panel halted the execution of Jeffery Lynn Borden, a convicted killer on death row for more than 20 years, so a lower court judge could hold a hearing about Alabama’s three-drug execution method.

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