To stream 13WMAZ on your phone, you need the 13WMAZ app. Example video title will go here for this video Example video title will go here for this video BUTTS COUNTY, Ga. — A federal appeals court ruled that a Georgia inmate who took his fight for death by firing squad to the U.S. Supreme Court can still be executed by lethal injection. The court rejected Michael Nance’s claims that his medical problems would make lethal injection “cruel and unusual punishment.” Nance is on death row at a state prison in Butts County and, for the past six years, has waged a legal fight for the ability to die by firing squad. While fleeing a bank robbery in 1993, Nance shot and killed Gabor Balogh while trying to steal his car. Four years later, a Gwinnett County jury convicted and sentenced him to death. Nance argues that lethal injection would “substantially” increase the risk of damaging his “compromised” veins, which could cause serious complications. He presented death by firing squad as a “feasible and readily implemented” alternative. But, in Georgia, state law does not allow execution by firing squad. Nance’s case had gone all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2022, they ruled that a low
