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Subject: Death row prisoner has No right to painless death
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tranie 2.04.19 - 11:43am
The US Supreme Court has ruled that a convicted murderer on death row in Missouri has no right to a painless death. The ruling clears the way for the execution of Russell Bucklew, who asked for gas rather than lethal injection, citing an unusual medical condition.
Bucklew, 50, argued the state's preferred method amounts to legally banned cruel and unusual punishment. The 5-4 ruling split along the court's ideological lines.
Bucklew was sentenced to death in 1996 for r*pe, murder and kidnapping in an attack against his ex-girlfriend and her new partner and six-year-old son.

In recent court filings, Bucklew argued that his congenital condition, cavernous hemangioma, might cause him excessive pain if he is put to death by lethal injection.
The condition causes blood-filled tumours in his throat, neck and face, which he said could rupture during his execution causing him extreme pain and suffocation.
According to Bucklew, he would feel excessive pain if the state executioner is allowed to use the state's preferred method of a single drug, pentobarbital, applied by needle.
But the Supreme Court's conservative justices said on Monday they considered the legal effort to be a stalling tactic. They said it was up to the prisoner to prove that another method of execution would reduce a substantial risk of severe pain, but he had not done so. [link]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47780123[/link] * +

tranie 2.04.19 - 11:45am
do convicted murders deserve the right to die painlessly ? or fk em let them suffer ? what says you people ? * +

kimjongl 2.04.19 - 11:54am
Those Supreme Court picks are really paying off.



Let them suffer. * +

xivanax 2.04.19 - 11:58am
Suffer * +

ladibud 2.04.19 - 12:15pm
I am totally against death penalty. it should have no place in society.

what is quite troubling is that anyone would want that for another, to die in a horrible manner. I can understand in the heat of the moment when someone dies a horrible death, I can understand a family member or loved one wanting this.

to me it is nothing but legal murder and tortue. I don't want to be able to be okay with that because then in my eyes I am no better than the murderer. * +

ladibud 2.04.19 - 12:21pm
i would rather day that the supreme court, or any other court, should not have the right to order legalised murder. painless or not. * +

budgiesmuggler 2.04.19 - 12:23pm
Don't play with your feces.
Wipe your bum.
Flush it down.
Wash your hands * +

recurve16 2.04.19 - 12:24pm
Paedo's, child killers and Islamic extremists should all die long slow painful deaths.
Preferably in a public place, to serve as a warning to others.
All other criminals should just serve their time... * +

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