The Supreme Court sided with a Georgia death row inmate on Thursday who wants to be executed by firing squad instead of by lethal injection, which is currently the only authorized method of execution in the state.

Michael Nance was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 2002 for shooting and killing a bystander after a bank robbery in 1993.

Nance argued in a petition that sedatives used in the lethal injection protocol would fail to “render him unconscious” due to medicine he takes for back pain, and that his veins are “severely compromised,” which could cause “intense pain and burning.”

Execution by firing squad, on the other hand, would lead to a “swift and virtually painless” death, he argued.

The Supreme Court vote was 5-4 in favor of allowing the death sentence to be carried out by a firing squad.