Legal Opinion
Bucklew v. Precythe
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 1, 2019No. 17-8151PublishedCited by 368 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gorsuch
Russell Bucklew concedes that the State of Missouri lawfully convicted him of murder and a variety of other crimes. He acknowledges that the U.S. Constitution permits a sentence of execution for his crimes. He accepts, too, that the State's lethal injection protocol is constitutional in most applications. But because of his unusual medical condition, he contends the protocol is unconstitutional as applied to him. Mr. Bucklew raised this claim for the first time less than two weeks before his scheduled execution. He received a stay of execution and five years to pursue the argument, but in the…
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