Bucklew execution scheduled for Tuesday

Monday, March 19, 2018

ST. LOUIS -- A condemned Missouri inmate faces a potentially "gruesome and painful" execution because of a rare medical condition that compromises the man's veins and causes multiple tumors in his head and throat, his attorney said Sunday.

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