For the second time this year, the Missouri Supreme Court is considering whether a judge can impose a death penalty in the absence of explicit jury findings.

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The Supreme Court says Missouri can execute an inmate who argued his rare medical condition will result in severe pain if he is given death-causing drugs. The justices ruled 5-4 Monday against inmate Russell Bucklew, who is on death row ...

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The Supreme Court says Missouri can execute an inmate who argued his rare medical condition will result in severe pain if he is given death-causing drugs. The justices ruled 5-4 Monday against inmate Russell Bucklew, who is on death row ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court has been asked to decide if it was proper for a Missouri judge to impose the death penalty on a man after a jury was unable to agree on his sentence. But arguments in the case on Jan. 23 indicated the man’s case might be resolved on other grounds.

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Hearing his first arguments in a death-penalty case, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh seemed open Tuesday to the arguments of a Missouri inmate who says his rare medical condition could result in severe pain if he is executed by lethal ...

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Hearing his first arguments in a death-penalty case, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh seemed open Tuesday to the arguments of a Missouri inmate who says his rare medical condition could result in severe pain if he is executed by lethal ...

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A Missouri death-row inmate with a rare condition will argue before the U.S. Supreme Court this week that the state’s lethal-injection method is unconstitutional as it applies to his circumstances. The case could result in a ruling that is narrowly ...

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Attorneys for a Tennessee death row prisoner were trying to spare him from lethal injection and they succeeded — though not the way they hoped. Instead of getting the needle, Edmund Zagorski is scheduled to die in the electric chair ...

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Attorneys for a Tennessee death row prisoner were trying to spare him from lethal injection and they succeeded — though not the way they hoped. Instead of getting the needle, Edmund Zagorski is scheduled to die in the electric chair ...

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Washington’s Supreme Court unanimously struck down the state’s death penalty Thursday as arbitrary and racially biased, making it the 20th state to do away with capital punishment. Execution was already extremely rare in Washington, with five prisoners put to death ...

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Washington’s Supreme Court unanimously struck down the state’s death penalty Thursday as arbitrary and racially biased, making it the 20th state to do away with capital punishment. Execution was already extremely rare in Washington, with five prisoners put to death ...

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