US Supreme Court OK's lethal injection for Missouri death row inmate with rare health issue.
The opinion, written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, said the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment "does not guarantee a painless death."
Russell Bucklew was convicted and sentenced to death 22 years ago for murdering a neighbor of his estranged girlfriend. He asked the state to put him to death using nitrogen gas, claiming that extensive tumors in his throat would rupture during lethal injection, causing him intense suffering. Monday's ruling said Bucklew failed to show that Missouri could easily switch to using nitrogen gas instead. And it said he did not prove in the lower courts that such a method would be less painful.
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