COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) _ Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley is asking the full
Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review the case of a death row inmate
who claims lethal injection would be unconstitutionally cruel due to his medical
condition.
The Columbia Daily Tribune reports Hawley has requested an en banc review in the case of Ernest Lee Johnson, who was convicted of killing three Columbia convenience store workers during a 1994 robbery.
An appeals court panel ruled in August a lower court mistakenly dismissed Johnson’s appeal in 2016.
Johnson argues Missouri’s lethal injection drug, pentobarbital, could trigger seizures because he has part of a benign tumor in his brain, and surgery to remove the rest of the tu
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