US, sentenced to death calls for execution: Supreme Court says no

The US Supreme Court did not grant a request from a death row inmate in Missouri to be sent to a firing squad instead of being killed by lethal injection. The convict, Ernest Johnson, suffers from epilepsy and one of the drugs used in the lethal injection cocktail is pentobarbital, which can cause seizures. The three most liberal judges on the court opposed the conservative majority who did not grant Johnson’s request.