(Missouri Department of Corrections / Associated Press)
Associated Press
The U.S. Supreme Court has lifted its stay on the scheduled execution Wednesday of a Missouri death-row inmate whose lawyers had challenged the state’s refusal to disclose where it obtained its lethal injection drug.
(Missouri Department of Corrections, File / Associated Press)
Associated Press
By the time the U.S. Supreme Court refused a last-minute request to stay the execution of Herbert Smulls, the Missouri inmate was already dead. His attorneys said Thursday that it was the third straight case in which Missouri has moved ahead with an execution while the case was still in court.