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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Ronnie Lee Gardner, 2010, also firing squad.
where?
For so many of us, it’ll always be a Bourne-again shell game.
Also Utah. 2010.
My dad was a prosecutor. I think probably all of his cases were tried before DNA evidence was common. He didn't believe in the death penalty most of the time, because he said that it was possible to make a mistake. One of the last cases I saw him try, though, he did push for the death penalty, and that guy is on death row now. Even in our state, the wheels of justice turn slowly. The murder was in 1991, 27 years ago.
I always think about what Ron White said about Texas having an express lane.
Ronnie Lee Gardner didn't have a chance. His early life was an absolute train wreck. Social services should have put him in foster care - that would have been better than the way he was raised. Because of that, he ended up a murderer. I'm not excusing him. Many people overcome worse things, but not very often.
Well now Ronnie Lee and us all know LOL
Gnight Atticus
Actually, I’m Scout. :-) Goodnight.
Fair enough
I tend to throw down fire and brimstone. and take it out on myself.
some how it just aint fair
“Immersion in a huge bucket of leeches. Have heard they aren’t painful. Much.”
I use them jigging for walleyes. The best...although when they glom on to your finger you have to un-suck them.
I don't understand why death by firing squad (or a pistol shot to the back of the head, nearly point blank) aren't used as means of execution these days. Death is instantaneous and painless, and there are fewer things that could go wrong than with lethal injection or electrocution. Is it just because it leaves a bloody mess for someone to clean up?
Regardless, if I were given a choice between firing squad or being electrocuted to death, I know I'd pick firing squad.
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