The state of Arizona executes killer Jeffrey Landrigan (left) announced late Tuesday after the U. S. Supreme Court ruled against the way for lethal injection, said an official correction.
The execution was carried out by 10:26 hours (24:26 EST), said Barrett Marson, spokesman for the Arizona Department of Corrections.
"I want to say thanks to my family here and all my friends" were the last words Landrigan Marson. He concluded: "Late Boomer" with a high frequent use of the University of Oklahoma fans.
Landrigan last meal consisted of meat, fried okra, fries, strawberry ice cream and Dr Pepper, "said Marson.
The way in which the execution was canceled after the majority of the judges of the Supreme Court, a federal judge tentatively scheduled to run that day, ceased to be evacuated.
In a 5-4 decision, the Court overturned two lower court rulings.
Hours earlier, the 9th, U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals U. S. U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver, who blocked Landrigan 18 hours before the execution until Tuesday at noon MT (14:00 ET) on one side.
Landrigan's lawyers filed a civil lawsuit on Thursday in violation of the execution, scheduled violated his constitutional rights to a cruel and unusual punishment, and freedom of a fair trial. Monday ', the temporary stay of silver, after that there is sufficient information Landrigan of the page to offer their arguments sufficiently aware of the safety and legality of the substances used to kill him.
But the U.S. Supreme Court let the lower court and said: "There is no evidence in the record indicated that the drug is received from a foreign source is uncertain (see below).
Judge Silver wrote that she "was not to speculate" that the drug is harmful, but a statement of the Supreme Court, citing a 1993 presented a different aspect to the conclusion that feelings should not be that it is "definitely or probably that the right of serious illness or suffering. "
"There was no evidence that the drug was obtained illegally, or an offer of proof in that regard," said the Supreme Court.
The decision was supported by a grant from the appointment of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Justice Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor has disabled a part of silver, and not the pronunciation.
In 1989, Landrigan escaped from an Oklahoma prison, where uptime for second-degree murder. He was sentenced to strangle Chester Dean Dyer in Arizona, one year later, during a robbery, and a trial judge sentenced him to death.