divided panel of the D.C. Circuit vacated District Judge Chutkan's injunction in a per curiam decision. Circuit Judges Gregory G. Katsas and Neomi Rao wrote concurring opinions concluding that Honken may be executed, but for different reasons. Circuit Judge David S. Tatel dissented, arguing the statute explicitly requires the federal government to follow state execution protocols. On June 29, 2020, the Supreme Court denied Honken's petition for review, with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissenting. On July 17, 2020, Honken was executed by lethal injection. His final words were a reciting of the poem Heaven-Heaven by Gerard Manley Hopkins:"I have desired to go, where springs not fail, to fields where flies no sharp and sided hail, and a few lilies blow. And I have asked to be, where no storms come, where the green swell is in the havens dumb, and out of the swing of the sea."Honken then said "Hail Mary, Mother of God, pray for me." He was pronounced dead at 3:36 p.m. CST. See also Capital punishment by the United States federal government List of people executed by the United States federal government List of people executed in the United States in 2020 List of serial killers in the United States References External links Death in Iowa at The Malefactor's Register 1993 in Iowa 1993 murders in the United States 20th-century mass murder in the United States Capital murder cases Crime in Iowa Criminal duos Mass murder in 1993 Massacres in 1993 Massacres in the United States Murder in Iowa Serial murders in the United States