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| Missouri death row inmate's hopes rest with courts |
| By news-leader.com |
| Published: 05/20/2014 |
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Attorneys for a condemned Missouri inmate remain hopeful that a court will halt his execution, even if the governor has shown little inclination to do so himself. Russell Bucklew, 46, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday for killing a southeast Missouri man during a violent crime spree in 1996. His attorneys, Lindsay Runnels and Cheryl Pilate, have appealed to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals, citing concerns about Missouri's secretive process of purchasing the execution drug pentobarbital and worries that Bucklew could suffer during lethal injection because of a rare medical condition. Read More. |
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