Cry Me a River
Russell Bucklew’s unusual medical condition is grave enough to halt his execution, his lawyers say. (ACLU)
Mr. Bucklew has earned a cell in Missouri’s Death Row, and has a well deserved reservation on the gurney for a lethal dose of pentobarbital.
But wait, his lawyers say- because of his medical condition,cavernous hemangioma, the act of execution may cause one of his blood filled tumors to burst, causing him excruciating pain expressed as “…choking on his own blood.”
Well, that certainly sounds like a horrific way to go. How did
Mr. Bucklew get into this predicament? Read on.
Death row inmate with rare condition may suffer excruciatingly painful death, lawyers say
Fox News Staff
The fate of a convicted killer in Missouri inmate rests with Gov. Mike Parson, who must decide if the risk posed by Russell Bucklew’s unusual medical condition is grave enough to halt his execution.
Bucklew, 51, is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday evening for killing a man during a 1996 crime spree that started with his girlfriend breaking up with him on Valentine’s Day.
He suffers from cavernous hemangioma. The rare disease causes blood-filled tumors in his head, neck and throat. A permanent tracheostomy in his throat helps him breathe. His attorneys say in the clemency request that if one of the throat tumors bursts, Bucklew could suffer an excruciatingly painful death.
“These unstable tumors are highly likely to hemorrhage during the stress of the execution, causing Russell to cough and choke on his own blood,” the clemency request states.
Bucklew’s girlfriend, Stephanie Ray, left him on Valentine’s Day in 1996. Over the next few weeks, according to court records, he harassed her, cut her with a knife and punched her in the face. Ray feared for her life and the lives of her children, so she moved into the Cape Girardeau County mobile home that her new boyfriend, Michael Sanders, shared with his children.
On March 21, after stealing his nephew’s car and taking two pistols, handcuffs and duct tape from his brother, Bucklew followed Ray to Sanders’ home. Sanders confronted Bucklew with a shotgun inside the home. Bucklew fired two shots, one piercing Sanders’ lung. He bled to death.
Bucklew then shot at Sanders’ 6-year-old son and missed. Court records say he struck Ray in the face with the pistol, handcuffed her and dragged her to his car. He later raped Ray before heading north on Interstate 55.
A trooper spotted Bucklew’s car and eventually became engaged in a gunfight near St. Louis. Both men were wounded. Bucklew later escaped from the Cape Girardeau County Jail. He attacked Ray’s mother and her boyfriend with a hammer before being recaptured.
Quite a resume; the lawyers are grasping at straws and he should ride the needle into whatever is next. Unstable tumors and all.
Read the entire article at Fox News
Note:
Pentobarbital, also known as pentobarbitone, is a short-acting barbiturate. In high doses, pentobarbital causes death by respiratory arrest. In the United States, the drug has been used for executions of convicted criminals.
ref. Wiki
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So if he’s executed, the bloody cyst will burst and he’ll suffocate, but the drug to be used to execute him will make him suffocate.
Ummm… does anyone besides me see a conflict of Da Stoopid here?
“Hangin’s too good for ‘im,…”
https://youtu.be/HXbIDwLeeEo
Handsome devil
Perhaps an exception to policy to allow death by firing squad?
Suffocate? Pfffffttt……so what?
If you want quick and painless, double tap to the heart and/or noggin at close range. Save the drugs for another loser.
That technique is very humane. I’d be pleased to accommodate him if officially sanctioned. The double tap is part of my military skill set.
In the old socialist nation called the USSR, they used only one small-caliber bullet (the Blokhin technique).
I have an East German Makarov from the height of the Cold War era, 1962.
I wonder if it was used by one of the Stassi to do something of the sort with a single bullet to the head.
It’s like an M-1, you just wonder how many Japs or Nazi’s it shot during its former life.
Things that make you go Hmmmmmm…..
BTW, the thing still shoots great and never jams. It’s small, heavy, fits in an IWB and has clear sights, makes a great CCW.
Interestingly enough, Blokhin – who was the NKVD’s chief executioner, and personally executed around 7,000 Poles during the Kaytn Forest massacres – didn’t use a Soviet weapon at Kaytn. He used a number of Walther .25ACP pistols. Seems he didn’t trust the reliability of Soviet weapons of that era and was afraid they wouldn’t hold up well enough.
Thanks for the link. A great read on how ruthless and murderous commies can be. Too bad our cretinous yutes haven’t heard of this glorious historical example of the superiority of Marxist socialism.
We are not a poverty-stricken third-world country like the USSR. We can afford two bullets, and larger calibers too.
“cavernous hemangioma”
So I guess Viagra is also contraindicated.
Is it bad that I first read that as “cavernous mangina”?
“His attorneys say in the clemency request that if one of the throat tumors bursts, Bucklew could suffer an excruciatingly painful death.”
The POS didn’t show a damn bit of mercy to who he murdered, so fuck him and may his lawers get ass-raped by a Grizzly Bear with AIDS and the SOB who was mean enough to give it to him!
Murderer, rapist, attempted cop killer, and attempted child killer. Is there any way we can force one of those throat blisters to burst and cause him the excruciating death he so deserves?
Ok, then shoot the fucker. Problem solved.
Wah Wah Wah & boo hoo.
F&ck this POS. Wonder what kinda pain his victims suffered. Do to him what he did to each victim…23 years ago. How much has the taxpayer suffered, paying his room and board, plus the medical expenses.
A proper hanging would snap his worthless neck. That would be quick and semi painless. I would prefer a hanging by short rope over a low branch. Let the victims survivors lift him til his toes just barely touch the ground. Let the POS twist in the breeze for a few hours. Film at 11.
I want to watch them burst!
Forget the phenobarbitol and take a long needle and just start popping those tumors one at a time.
No problem. Start his IV, give him enough fentanyl to put him under – then give him the lethal dose of whatever.
Hard to feel pain when you’re unconscious.
We recently confiscated enough of that crap to wipe out a small city. I suppose it might have some use…… clearing the backlog.
I think you’re on to something. Big Pharma refuses to sell products to State Departments of Correction, so use contraband fentanyl instead.
Win-win.
“excruciatingly painful death” ???
Sounds like a feature not a bug
🙂
This initially reminded me of Richard Bucklew but I can’t fine a good link from the old TAH for him. Seems to be 404’d
Imagine my concern that this POS may experience a painful death.
I mean, his plight really breaks me up. The thought that a murderer might feel discomfort while he is being executed really concerns me.
No, not really. Fuck this POS and jam the needles in.
The problem with lawyers is that 99% of them make the rest look bad….
Sympathy level: zero. No fucks given.
“For behold! My Field of Fucks! For it is Barren, and Empty, and I have None to Give!”
Put a face mask on him and let him suck on a tank full of helium or sit him down in “old Sparky” and pull the lever. His time was up a long time ago. I don’t care for his suffering.
Washington used to hang people. One murderous felon on borrowed time ate everything he could get his hands on then sued the state saying hanging his obese a$$ could decapitate him causing “cruel and unusual punishment”. His sentence was commuted to life without parole instead of a “Jenny Craig diet” and a rope.
I’m sure Russell Bucklew wasn’t concerned with the pain inflicted on his victims. As Nike says… Just Do It.
His name was Mitchell Rupp. He was convicted of triple murder in 1981 and sentenced to death. His death sentence was overturned twice,and in a third trial it was life in prison. At the time a Washington death row prisoner could choose between hanging , firing squad, or lethal injection. Rupp chose hanging, however as his hanging date dru close he ate himself up to 425 pounds. his actual weight is unknown as the scale used topped out at that weight. A federal judge ruled that he was too heavy to hang without the potential of beheading him. He died in 2006, 35 years after is original conviction.
I guess none of this really matters as our current governor has stopped all executions in the state by propclimation.By the way, he is the same guy that thinks that climate change is the number one problem in the universe. And yes he is a Dimocrat.
I didn’t realize the food in prison was so bountiful and rich.
Maybe the doctor could prescribe a mild sedative prior to his “procedure” so that he will not be nervous and the “procedure” will go smoothly and he will not feel any pain even if his cysts do burst…at least for the two seconds before he suffocates anyway!
I know it always helps me when the doctor is sticking that needle in my spine to give a little temporary relief (one slip and no more walking) from jumping out of too many perfectly good airplanes.
If his attorney is looking for sympathy for him might I suggest looking in the dictionary under S, it’s between sh** and syphilis two things that are actually preferable than the continued existence of their client.
Well hell…my eyes watered while reading the story from laughing myself SILLY. I’d sent his Dumbass attorney a phone card and he can call everyone in his State and not one person will say THEY GIVE A SHIT..
I SURE AS HELL DON’T.
I hope he dies screaming in agony, his last moments gurgling the remnants of his shitbag life across his lips in a bloody, excruciating death that only ceases to hurt with his last breath.
I have zero concern or empathy about whether or not this piece of filth is in pain at any point in time.
If it makes others squeamish, let me know. I have a hazmat suit and a 3 pound sledge, short handle and I won’t mind beating him to death starting at his feet and working my way towards his head while he screams and begs it to stop.
Fuck him, and fuck anybody who feels bad for him.
Russel is really getting needled with the comments today.
Fine death by Lethal Explosion.
Since you brought it up—
The disdain Monty Python has for the French and the English aristocracy tickles me, probably more than would be considered health.
Commenter Berliner suggested having him breathe a hypoxic mixture of helium.
As an Anesthesiologist, I have always wondered why we don’t perform all executions with that method.
People rescued from exposure to hypoxic environments (like those found in closed anchor lockers on ships) or given improper gas mixtures in anesthesia all report no pain or anxiety as they fall unconscious. There is plenty of gas to inhale, it just has no oxygen in it.
No need to give poison gas, just pure Nitrogen, Helium or even Xenon will cause a pain and anxiety free death in 5 minutes.
No need to make an execution look like an anesthetic with I.V’s and drugs and fluids.
Or we could just shoot him. That works, too
Hell, they could just give him an OD of Heroin with a dirty needle, the fucker is gonna die anyway!
I agree with this-death is the penalty, why not a drug OD? It will ultimately be fatal and there won’t be any issues about pain or cruelty.
Is that a callous on his lip from puffing prison peter…???
Fuck him and his medical condition. He didn’t give the person that he killed any consideration for his medical conditions before he shot him.
His death should be just as painful as his victims death, if not more.
Geez, quite an ugly looking toad ain’t he. His upper lip just looks disgusting.
When first seeing the photo, I thought he was smoking a little seegar. Wonder if that growth on his upper lip is some indicia of VD.
That’s what I thought at first too until I looked more closely. As for the VD part, I don’t know about that but I won’t completely rule it out either.
Good news everyone! This guy is no longer a problem.
See you in hell, f**cker!
They went ahead and executed him or did he die of from his condition? Either way, good riddance to bad rubbish.
Nevermind. I found it. Can’t say I feel sorry for the bastard either.
Wholeheartedly agree.
https://nypost.com/2019/10/01/missouri-executes-sociopath-russell-bucklew-despite-concern-about-painful-death/
Adios, MF-er
Good Riddance.
(three-note phone tones)
“We’re sorry. The felon you are trying to reach has been disconnected…..”
And done.
The problem is: why did it take so long to flush this turd? When you have overwhelming evidence – why did it take so long? Ya’ll, we need to fix that.
I’m thinking of the Mexican cop that Denzel gave an explosive enema to.
What a way to go out, semi naked handcuffed to your cop car and in your boxers and t-shirt…….
BEEEEEEEEEEP……
BOOM !!!!
Problem solved !!!
A convicted killer has been executed in the U.S. despite claiming to have a rare condition that would make his facial tumours explode if he was injected.
Russell Bucklew, 51, died in Missouri on Tuesday evening after being convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s lover Michael Sanders in 1996.
Bucklew claimed a lethal injection might inflict undue pain by rupturing blood-filled tumours on his face, head, neck and throat, caused by a rare congenital condition called cavernous hemangioma.
He argued that would be in violation of the US Constitution’s Eighth Amendment, which bars cruel and unusual punishment.
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against Bucklew in April.
“He’s DEAD, Jim.”