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Lawyers for four Oklahoma death row inmates are petitioning the Supreme Court to halt an upcoming execution on the grounds that one of the drugs to be used in the lethal injection led to three previous botched executions, thus constituting cruel and unusual punishment.

As the drama of the legal tussle unfolded on Tuesday night, the federal eighth circuit appeals court, sitting with a panel of three judges, ruled two to one to stay the execution on the grounds that Bucklew's medical problems meant there was "sufficient likelihood of unnecessary pain and suffering beyond the constitutionally permissible amount inherent in all executions".

As the drama of the legal tussle unfolded on Tuesday night, the federal eighth circuit appeals court, sitting with a panel of three judges, ruled two to one to stay the execution on the grounds that Bucklew's medical problems meant there was "sufficient likelihood of unnecessary suffering".

It asked the court to stay the execution on the grounds that Mr. Colburn was incompetent to be executed and had been denied his constitutional rights during proceedings in state court.

The US supreme court is also weighing Prieto's last-minute attempts to block the execution on the grounds that he is intellectually disabled.

But on Thursday, a federal appeal court upheld a district judge's decision to reject McVeigh's request for an extended stay of execution, on the grounds that there was no doubt about his guilt.

The Supreme Court let the execution proceed on the grounds that all appeals had been exhausted, calling the effort by Judge Fletcher and her colleagues to reopen the matter "a grave abuse of discretion".

Under circumstances unique in judicial history, the relator asks this Court to stay his execution on the ground that it will violate the due process of law guaranteed to him by the Constitution of the United States.

The suit will ask the federal courts to halt executions in the state on the grounds that the department of corrections is violating the eighth amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment.

While Human Rights Watch criticized the executions, it did so on the grounds that the death penalty is always wrong, and that Afghanistan's justice system is so poor that the convictions could not be trusted — rather than because they were prisoners of war, according to the group's Afghanistan representative, Heather Barr.

Only in one state, Connecticut, is the execution of a prisoner outlawed on the grounds that they were mentally ill at the time the crime was committed.