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JACKSONVILLE, Florida (AP) -- The execution of a condemned man who had argued that Florida's use of lethal injections amounted to cruel and unusual punishment was set to go ahead Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly denied him a stay.
Clarence Hill, 48, was scheduled to die at 6 p.m. for the 1982 murder of a Pensacola police officer in a savings and loan robbery.
The Supreme Court, which halted Hill's execution in January after he was strapped to a gurney awaiting his lethal injections, voted 5-4 to deny another stay. Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter and John Paul Stevens voted to grant the stay, the court said in a two-sentence order.
The high court ruled unanimously in June that Hill could argue the three chemicals used in lethal injections in Florida and many other states -- sodium pentothal, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride -- can cause excruciating pain.
The first drug is a painkiller, the second paralyzes the inmate and the third causes a fatal heart attack.
Neither the federal court in Tallahassee nor the Atlanta appeals court agreed to consider Hill's challenges to the chemicals. Both said Hill should have made those arguments years ago, although Doss contends they could not have been made until Gov. Jeb Bush signed the death warrant in November.
Hill, 48, of Mobile, Alabama, was convicted of first-degree murder for the October 19, 1982, killing of Officer Stephen Taylor, 26, and the wounding of Taylor's partner, Larry Bailly, when they responded to a silent alarm at Freedom Federal Savings Bank.
The Supreme Court also halted the execution of another Florida inmate who sought to challenge the lethal injection procedure.
A new execution date has not been set for Arthur Rutherford, who like Hill had been scheduled to die in January.
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