The U.S. Supreme Court denied a stay of execution to Clarence Hill who is scheduled to be executed at 6 pm on September 20 in Florida. Four Justices would have granted the stay. Hill had raised a civil rights challenge to Florida’s lethal injection law after the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in June in his favor that such a challenge was proper. However, the lower courts stated that his claim was filed too late and they denied him an evidentiary hearing on the merits of his lethal injection challenge.

(Associated Press, Sept. 20, 2006). See DPIC’s Lethal Injection Information.