Missouri inmate’s execution could be ‘gruesome’ due to rare condition, lawyers say

The Washington Times ^ | March 18, 2018 | AP

[jazusamo]

ST. LOUIS — A condemned Missouri inmate faces a potentially “gruesome and painful” execution because of a rare medical condition that compromises the man’s veins and causes multiple tumors in his head and throat, his attorney said Sunday.

Russell Bucklew is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday evening for killing a former girlfriend’s new boyfriend in 1996 in eastern Missouri.

Bucklew, 49, was moments away from execution in May 2014 when the U.S. Supreme Court halted it amid concerns about Bucklew’s medical condition. He suffers from cavernous hemangioma, a rare ailment that causes weakened and malformed blood vessels, as well as blood-filled tumors in his nose and throat.

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According to court documents, Bucklew was angry at his girlfriend for leaving him and moving in with Michael Sanders of Cape Girardeau when he tracked her down at Sanders’ home in March 1996. He killed Sanders in front of the woman, her two daughters and Sanders’ two sons and then attacked the woman and drove her to a secluded area and raped her.

[jazusamo]

Get on with it.

[traderrob6]

Then shoot him.

[Bonemaker]

“A condemned Missouri inmate faces a potentially “gruesome and painful” execution ...”

Excellent!

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

OK, transfer him to Utah and have a firing squad. Problem solved.

[Secret Agent Man]

Sledgehammer to back of head?
Drive a suv over his head?

Hire mafia hitman for a shot to the back of the head?

All very quick and painless.

Drug him up and do it.

[Clutch Martin]

Strap on a nitrogen mask...

Badda bing, badda boom... Jack! You dead.

[Menehune56]

Probably needs to wear a hood then.

[Secret Agent Man]

And then dont stop with him, do all the guys and gals on death row that have crystal-clear-cut cases, and clean the place out.

[Fiji Hill]

Why not hang him?

[PTBAA]

Give him five different methods and let him decide. It would be four more choices than his victim had.

[jazusamo]

MAGA!

Support Free Republic, Folks!

[North Coast Conservative]

So what😎

[Eddie01]

[Cowboy Bob]

You don't need to worry about veins with the guillotine.

[ConservativeMind]

😎👍🏻

[Enchante]

So hang him, shoot him, chop off his head.... just get it done. Bury him alive in pig sewage for all I care, just get it done.

[sphinx]

How did he kill his victims? There’s your answer.

[farming pharmer]

Hire mafia hitman for a shot to the back of the head?

Saving the taxpayer big bucks, too. The mafia like 22LR to the back of the head.

[I want the USA back]

They are going to kill him. The “gruesome” part affects only the onlookers. The condemned is going to die anyway.

Instead of caring for the feelings of the onlookers, use a method that is efficient. The only ones who need to witness it are the ones who carry it out.

Firing squad will work very well.

[jazusamo]

Bump!