he next man scheduled for execution in Missouri is hoping the U.S. Supreme Court's temporary reprieve for a fellow death-row inmate will extend his own lease on life.
Convicted double-murderer John Winfield is slated for a June 18 lethal injection, which would be the first since a botched execution in Oklahoma last month brought new scrutiny to capital punishment procedures.
Another Missourian, Russell Bucklew, was supposed to be executed this week, but the nation's high court blocked it and ordered a lower court to take a new look at the case.
Bucklew argued a birth defect would make his execution too painful, but he also filed objections to the Show-Me State's refusal to disclose where it buys its execution drugs.
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