Missouri death row inmate Russell Bucklew – whose rare birth defect, his lawyers claimed, would cause him to suffer a “prolonged, tortuous death” – will not be executed as scheduled Wednesday morning, due to a last-minute stay of execution by the United States Supreme Court. The order, issued by Justice Samuel Alito – who handles emergency matters for states covered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit – came with little more than an hour to spare, and included no immediate explanation as to why the court decided to suspend Bucklew’s death by lethal injection.
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