The Indiana Supreme Court denied death row inmate Roy Lee Ward’s latest appeal this week and officially set his execution for Oct. 10.

In its ruling, the court rejected arguments that the state’s lethal injection process poses a constitutional risk and said Ward had not met the legal burden to reopen his case.

“Ward does not seek relief from his death sentence but only from the method by which that sentence is carried out,” the justices wrote. “Because he seeks to litigate his claims only in post-conviction proceedings and none of them attack the validity of his convictions or the sentence imposed, he has not established a reasonable possibility that he is entitled to post-conviction relief.”

Without a stay — which would effectively pause the execution to allow for additional court proc

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