BREAKING: For the fourth time this week, the Supreme Court has voted 6-3 to clear the way for a last-minute federal execution before Trump leaves office. Justices Breyer and Sotomayor write dissents. Justice Kagan also notes her dissent.

Dustin Higgs has COVID-19 and will be executed tonight despite lung damage that could turn his lethal injection into an egregiously painful death.

Here is Justice Sotomayor’s closing.

Here is Breyer on the SCOTUS majority’s rush to execute

Sotomayor names the federal inmates who have been killed since Trump revived the federal death penalty—a punishment that Biden will put a moratorium on next week

Sotomayor: “This is not justice.”

Tonight’s rush to execute is galling but not surprising. The selectively pro-life conservative majority has an appetite for capital punishment. That goes for the comparatively-moderate-on-some-other-issues Chief Justice, as I wrote @Slate https://www.google.com/amp/s/slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/john-roberts-supreme-court-death-penalty-jurisprudence-savage.amp