The Supreme Court rejects religious objections to fatal gas death

The Supreme Court of the United States cleared Louisiana to carry out an inmate in a way that he says to violate his Buddhist beliefs.

The 5: 4 arrangement of the court on Tuesday means that Jessie Hoffman would be the first person in the state killed by nitrogen hypoxia, a relatively new form of execution using nitrogen gas to induce suffocation. Alabama carried out the first nitrogen gas version in the United States last year.

His execution was planned for Tuesday evening. Hoffman was convicted of Molly Elliott from 1996 for murder and rape.

He argued that the deadly gas would cause “psychological terror” and claimed that the method would make it impossible for him to die according to his religious beliefs because it would affect its meditative breathing.

The majority of the court rejected these arguments without explaining his argument. Due to the three liberal judges, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, the execution had carried out the execution. They also did not explain their argument.

Only justice Neil Gorsuch wrote to describe why he would have temporarily stopped the execution.

He found that nobody questioned the sincerity of Hoffman's religious beliefs, and said that the lower court wrongly made its own statement about what his religion required. Gorsuch said courts have “no license” to decide these questions.

The currently conservative Supreme Court rarely enters standing. The judges this month allowed a execution by shot in South Carolina.

The judges were sympathetic to religious claims and ruled 8-1 in 2022 that Texas could not prohibit religious touch and audible prayer in the Chamber of execution.

This year the judges granted an inmate in Oklahoma a new process after the state's Republican Attorney General said that he could no longer be behind the conviction.

The case is Hoffman against Gary Westcott, USA, No. 24A893, will be rejected on March 18, 200.