Missouri on Tuesday executed a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's...
- Missouri on Tuesday executed a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s lover more than 20 years ago, local media reported, after a court rejected his argument he faced cruel and unusual punishment because of a rare medical condition that would make lethal injection severely painful.
“His feet were twitching under the sheets, there was a sigh and then no more movement,” Sweeney said in a broadcast. Bucklew was the first inmate in Missouri to be executed since January 2017 and the 17th inmate executed in the United States in 2019, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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