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Kavanaugh joins liberals in tough questions on execution plans for man with rare condition
The Washington Post ^ | November 6, 2018 | Robert Barnes

Posted on 11/06/2018 3:50:18 PM PST by KingofZion

The Supreme Court spent a gruesome hour Tuesday debating a constitutional way to execute a Missouri man who has a rare medical condition, with the likely decider, new justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, joining the court’s liberals with tough questions for the state.

Modern and ancient execution methods — a firing squad, electrocution, hanging, lethal gas, being burned at the stake — all made appearances during the court’s sober assessment of ways to kill Russell Bucklew without violating the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Missouri plans to use an injection of a single drug, pentobarbital, to carry out the long-delayed execution of Bucklew. But he suffers from a congenital and rare disease called cavernous hemangioma. It causes blood-filled tumors to grow in his head, neck and throat, which his attorneys say could rupture during the state’s lethal injection process.

The result, they contend, would be that he could choke to death on his own blood.

*** In 1996, Bucklew, now 50, stalked after his former girlfriend Stephanie Ray at another man’s trailer. He shot and killed the man, Michael Sanders, tried to shoot Ray’s fleeing child and then captured Ray. He handcuffed and raped her, then wounded a police officer in a subsequent gunfight.

Bucklew later escaped from jail and attacked Ray’s mother with a hammer before he was recaptured.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deathpenalty; metoo; murder; punishment; rape; repeatoffender; scotus; stalker
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To: KingofZion

Nitrogen asphyxiation - fast, painless and it will stop these kinds of cases before the courts. A couple of states already practice this, I believe.


41 posted on 11/06/2018 4:27:40 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: tbw2

Bing! Bing! Bing! We have a winner! Outstanding, I had not thought of that, an execution method that libs cannot complain about.


42 posted on 11/06/2018 4:31:38 PM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: KingofZion
It causes blood-filled tumors to grow in his head, neck and throat, which his attorneys say could rupture during the state’s lethal injection process.

43 posted on 11/06/2018 4:32:48 PM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Nitrogen almost got one of my friends.

He was alert enough to get out when he went all woozy.


44 posted on 11/06/2018 4:33:34 PM PST by mylife (AMMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OntjJ3nzLfI)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Unix is a shell game :)


45 posted on 11/06/2018 4:36:06 PM PST by mylife (AMMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OntjJ3nzLfI)
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To: KingofZion

Very misleading headline.


46 posted on 11/06/2018 4:37:17 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: KingofZion

Right. Is being handcuffed and raped by this scumbag hurt more than choking while he’s asleep? Does being hit with a hammer hurt more than choking while he’s asleep? Give him the choice of choking while he’s asleep or being raped and then killed by being beaten with a hammer, like he did to his victims.


47 posted on 11/06/2018 4:37:38 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: KingofZion

Exactly.
The fact that this is even being discussed indicates how far from sanity our society has come.

Really afraid Kavanaugh will be another Roberts.


48 posted on 11/06/2018 4:39:26 PM PST by ZULU (Jeff Sessions should be tried for sedition.)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

We have plenty of fentanyl or even heroin in the evidence stores of practically every police station in the country.


49 posted on 11/06/2018 4:39:58 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: KingofZion

States should have capital punishment laws that give the state flexibility on the method, so as to avoid a mere “can’t do it” because a particular method is “inhumane” for a particular person in that persons condition. With flexibilty they should be able to choose the best method for any situation, instead of a one-method-fits-all legal mandate.


50 posted on 11/06/2018 4:44:21 PM PST by Wuli
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To: KingofZion

Odd that we are concerned that an execution may kill him.


51 posted on 11/06/2018 4:47:09 PM PST by lurk
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

At this point, any execution would be less painful to him than what his victims got.


52 posted on 11/06/2018 4:47:51 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: lurk

I am not, I want an execution method that ensures 99 percent probability of death or higher.


53 posted on 11/06/2018 4:48:41 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Cementjungle

Not before he listens entire collections of Streisand, Manilow and Beyonce whiny songs at max volume 24/7 for a week.

He’ll beg to be shot.


54 posted on 11/06/2018 4:49:33 PM PST by trotskylvalia (where nose meets the grindstone)
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To: trotskylvalia

That would be torture for sure


55 posted on 11/06/2018 4:51:44 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Aevery_Freeman
If you wish to be "kind", use fentanyl.

Just what I was going to post. I don't understand why the states have had such a hard time finding a viable substance for lethal injections when there is stuff like this.

56 posted on 11/06/2018 4:54:47 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Bonemaker

>“It causes blood-filled tumors to grow in his head, neck and throat, which his attorneys say could rupture during the state’s lethal injection process.”

>All the better...make it in Technicolor.

Immersion in a huge bucket of leeches. Have heard they aren’t painful. Much.


57 posted on 11/06/2018 4:54:54 PM PST by nevadapatriot
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To: KingofZion

Thinking of this poor sobs “cruel and unusual punishment” while this bastard killed 5 people with no regards for their lives. Any way to kill him would be fine. Use a hammer like he used on his mother. That will work


58 posted on 11/06/2018 5:14:11 PM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: mylife

Wasn’t someone executed that way recently, or about to be? I seem to remember something about that in the news.


59 posted on 11/06/2018 6:04:12 PM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
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To: KingofZion

So give him his choice of demise. Whatever it is, it’ll be better than what he did to the victim.


60 posted on 11/06/2018 6:06:05 PM PST by greeneyes
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