The state is moving to clear the path for the restart of executions in Georgia. Yesterday, the US Supreme Court ruled that the use of lethal injection as a form of execution does not violate the Constitution. With that decision, Georgia’s Attorney General filed motions with the state Supreme Court to lift stays-of-executions against convicted killers Jack Alderman and Curtis Osborne. The executions were put on hold in October while the nation’s high court heard the Kentucky case challenging lethal injection. Of 36 states that have the death penalty, Georgia is one of 27 that has lethal injection as its sole method of execution.
