In fact, Gorsuch lamented, “he filed his current challenge just days before his scheduled execution. That suit has now carried on for five years and yielded two appeals to the Eighth Circuit, two 11th-hour stays of execution, and plenary consideration in this Court. And despite all this, his suit in the end amounts to little more than an attack on settled precedent, lacking enough evidence even to survive summary judgment. … The people of Missouri, the surviving victims of Mr. Bucklew’s crimes, and others like them deserve better.”

Source: Los Angeles Times April 02, 2019 18:31 UTC