Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor led the court’s other two liberal justices in penning a dissent that condemned the use of nitrogen hypoxia in executions.

Sotomayor — joined by Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan — wrote the dissent in response to the conservative majority’s Thursday decision to decline a stay of execution for Anthony Boyd, an Alabama man who was convicted of helping to burn a man alive in 1993 and had requested to be executed by firing squad.

The state of Alabama instead executed Boyd on Thursday night using nitrogen hypoxia shortly after the court’s decision to decline his petition.

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