The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a controversial lethal injection drug Monday paved the way for Florida officials to consider the cases of hundreds of death row inmates including an Orlando man convicted of a quadruple murder.

The Florida Supreme Court postponed Jerry Correll’s execution that was scheduled last February pending the Supreme Court’s decision. Monday’s ruling confirms that the sedative midazolam can be used as a lethal injection in Florida.

The justices voted five-to-four in favor of the sedative. It was used in three botched executions in Arizona, Ohio and Oklahoma. Death penalty opponents claimed it was cruel and unusual punishment because the drug took longer than usual to work.

Correll’s attorneys had asked to delay his execution until the Supreme Court’s ruling. Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has now asked the court to lift the stay by filing a motion to the Supreme Court of Florida.

“The United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in Glossip today affirming the Baze1 standard and rejecting the challenge to the use of midazolam as an anesthetic in a lethal injection protocol similar to Florida’s,” according to the motion.

Correll was accused of killing his former mother-in-law, his ex-wife and her sister, and the former couple’s 5-year-old daughter in 1985.

Information from the Associated Press was used in this story.