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Kavanaugh in Focus as US High Court Weighs Death Case

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Conservative new U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday joined liberal colleagues in raising concerns about Missouri's plan to use lethal injection to execute a murderer with a rare medical condition. Lawyers for Russell Bucklew, 50, have argued that because of a congenital condition called cavernous hemangioma that leaves him with blood-filled tumors on his body, the lethal injection could cause undue agony in violation of the U.S. Constitution's prohibition on...

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