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capital sentences — clearing the way for the Department to carry out executions once death-sentenced inmates have exhausted their appeals,” the Justice Department said in a news release. While the Eighth Amendment
capital murder, and would not weigh in, thus leaving in place the lower court ruling blocking his execution. Liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson concurred in the decision to dismiss the case, while