The Supreme court postponed the execution of the murderer from Missouri
The Supreme Tribunal of the United States decided to postpone the execution of a convicted Herbert Salsa (Herbert Smulls) in Missouri, reports on January 28, the Agency Reuters. Lawyers of the attacker sought transfer due to the unavailability of information about the composition of lethal injection.
Protection of thought that the composition could add impurities that would result in death punishment of the convicted person and the violation of the ban on U.S. "ruthless or unusual punishment", tells CNN.
Penalty 56-year-old Salsa was scheduled for Wednesday, January 29. The authorities intended to apply lethal dose of pentobarbital.
Herbert Smalls was convicted for the murder of the owner of the jewelry trade center, which happened in 1991. The attacker also wounded spouse of the deceased and robbed of his shop.
Last years the authorities of different States regularly has to give up pentobarbital as part of injection. This is due to the reluctance of producers to supply the product in prisons and hence to support the institution of death executions. Experiments with the composition of the injection, in some cases, lead to a longer than usual agony prisoners.
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