Justice Sonia Sotomayor condemned the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to stay the execution of Anthony Boyd, who was put to death in Alabama using nitrogen gas, calling it "torturous suffocation" and a violation of the Eighth Amendment's guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment.| Davis Vanguard
Alabama plans to execute Carey Dale Grayson in November by nitrogen gas, the third planned using that method and fifth overall this year.| Alabama Reflector