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US man executed for 1996 killing after Supreme Court clears way

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Alabama executed an inmate by lethal injection for a 1996 murder after a divided U.S. Supreme Court rejected defence claims the man had an intellectual disability that cost him a chance to choose a less “torturous,” yet untried, execution method. 9News

Matthew Reeves, 43, was put to death at Holman Prison after the court lifted a lower court order that had prevented corrections workers from executing the prisoner. He was pronounced dead at 9:24pm, state Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a statement.

Gov. Kay Ivey, in a statement, said Johnson was “a good Samaritan lending a helping hand” who was brutally murdered. Reeves' death sentence “is fair, and tonight, justice was rightfully served,” she added. While courts have upheld Reeves’ conviction, the last-minute fight by his lawyers seeking to stop the execution involved his intellect, his rights under federal disability law and how the state planned to kill him.

Reeves’ attorneys criticised the Supreme Court’s failure to explain its decision to let the execution proceed. “The immense authority of the Supreme Court should be used to protect its citizens, not to strip them of their rights without explanation,” they said. Reeves also claimed the state failed to help him understand the form. But the state argued he wasn’t so disabled that he couldn’t understand the choice.

A poor reader and intellectually disabled, Reeves wasn’t capable of making such a decision without assistance that should have been provided under the American With Disabilities Act, his lawyers argued. A prison worker who gave Reeves a form didn't offer aid to help him understand, they said.

 

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