Missouri Execution Halted Hours Before Lethal Injection

The inmate’s medical condition accounted for the stay of execution.

A federal appeals court halted the execution of Russell Bucklew on Tuesday, just hours before the state of Missouri was set to execute him by lethal injection.

Attorneys for Bucklew, a convicted killer, had asked the courts for a stay of execution owing to a medical condition of Bucklew’s that they said would make it more likely he would suffer a prolonged, painful death during the execution.

Bucklew has a condition that causes weak blood vessels to grow in his face, head, neck and throat, his attorneys said, in addition to having growths in his head and neck that are partially blocking his airway…

Bucklew was set to be executed at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday for shooting and killing a man in 1996 before going on to beat, rape and abduct an ex-girlfriend.

The stay is for 60 days.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.