Florida Executes Michael Zack

In two orders separate from the main Order List, the Supreme Court rejected Michael Zack's application for a stay of his execution and requests to take his case. Chris Geidner summarized his claims: 

Before the U.S. Supreme Court currently are questions out of state court about whether lower courts properly considered the effects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome on him and whether the fact that a nonunanimous jury recommended death renders his sentence unconstitutional and out of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit about whether Florida’s clemency process violates due process guarantees.

The nonunanimous jury concern was flagged in the past, but the Supreme Court as a whole showed no concern about it. 

In general, the Supreme Court (including as a whole the liberals, with a few exceptions) followed the past of providing unexplained final write-offs of executions. This is wrong. A brief explanation is warranted.

Michael Duane Zack (there is a rule that people executed should have three names) murdered two women in 1996. He probably also raped both though only one case could be proven. That was the capital case; the other got him life imprisonment. Over twenty-five years later [insert usual arguments against executions after so much time], his time ran out.

Florida executed him. Society did not benefit much at all.