SCOTUS Update: Bucklew v. Precythe
The death penalty has reserved a frequent spot in the Supreme Court docket; the most recent case in 2014 addressed botched injections. On November 6, 2018, legal injection returned to the Court in Bucklew v. Precythe. This case presents a unique question – what should a state do when a normally painless procedure could cause immense pain and suffering to an individual inmate? Russell Bucklew, an inmate on Missouri’s death row, suffers from a very rare congenital medical condi