Supreme Court Denies Stay of Execution to Clarence Hill, 5 – 4

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.