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| Johnson seeks to die by poisonous gas, not lethal injection |
| By stlpublicradio.org- Marshall Griffin |
| Published: 08/05/2016 |
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Ernest Lee Johnson came within minutes of being executed last November when the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay. He challenged Missouri's use of pentobarbital, saying it could cause severe pain because he still has a brain tumor, even though most of it was removed during surgery eight years ago. The new filing, made Monday at the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, seeks to allow Johnson to be administered nitrogen while wearing a mask, called nitrogen-induced hypoxia. His attorney, Jeremy Weis, says it would be a safe, inexpensive and readily available alternative that would meet the legal requirement for executions in Missouri. Johnson was sentenced to death for killing three convenience store workers in Columbia in 1994. Read More. |
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