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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Not my fault or concern.
Why doesn’t the Wash Poo give a damn about babies that are choked and ripped limb from limb by abortionists?
not gonna take the bait from wapo when it’s just asking questions
execution with a hammer would not be unusual since he tried to use it himself.
Wood chipper... feet first.
Shoot him. It’s fast and he won’t suffer long. Didn’t they do that to a guy in Utah years ago.
That is exactly how I see it. It is perfectly acceptable.
Murder, kidnapping and rape all in the same night. He was a busy bee.
Firing squad isn’t cruel and unusual
Does it exist on the books ANYWHERE anymore?
Maybe if we hung a few, it wouldn't be so unusual.
Whatever liberals authorize for use in euthanasia is permissible for executions.
“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.
So make him unconscious and slit his arteries...
Hang him.
Close off the throat and there’s no drowning in his own blood. And even if he still manages to pull that off, who cares?
Utah
Good point...
And he escaped and went after her mom. But the left swears if they are locked up they cannot kill again.
Tell that to Whitey Bulger’s hitmen.
I believe Utah is the last state to use firing squad.
It was Gary Gilmour.
He donated his organs...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqx18CHDxbI
Just because his condition is unusual doesn’t mean the punishment is.
I have one word:
Guillotine.
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