Another Electric Chair Execution Proceeds Over Sotomayor Dissent

Justice Sonia Sotomayor characterized the latest execution by electric chair in Tennessee as “madness” in her latest dissent late Dec. 6 over the death penalty.

The execution followed a familiar pattern as Tennessee put to death inmate David Earl Miller over the latest Sotomayor dissent. Just last month she dissented from the high court’s decision to allow another electrocution in the same state to go forward.

“Such madness should not continue,” the justice wrote, not long before the state killed Miller for the 1981 Knoxville murder of Lee Standifer.

She bemoaned the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Glossip ...