Report No. 71 (2018) IACHR. Case No. 12.958 (Estados Unidos de America)

Case Number12.958
Year2018
Report Number71
Respondent StateUnited States
Case TypeMerits
CourtInter-American Comission of Human Rights
Alleged VictimRussell Bucklew
REPORT No. 71/18
CASE 12.958
REPORT ON MERITS (PUBLICATION)
RUSSELL BUCKLEW
UNITED STATES
Approved by the Commission at its Session No. 2131 held on May 10, 2018
168 Extraordinary Period of Sessions
OEA/Ser.L/V/II.168
D.. 81
10 May 2018
Original: English
Cite as: IACHR, R.rt No. 71/18, C. 12.958. M.. R.....B.. United S.s, May 10,
2018
www.cidh.org
REPORT No. 71/18
CASE 12.958
MERITS (PUBLICATION)
RUSSELL BUCKLEW
UNITED STATES
May 10, 2018
INDEX
I. SUMMARY ................................................................................................................................................................. 1
II. POSITIONS OF THE PARTIES .............................................................................................................................. 2
A. Position of the Petitioners ........................................................................................................................................ 2
B. Position of the S. .................................................................................................................................................... 3
III. PROVEN FACTS ....................................................................................................................................................... 4
A. The application of lethal injection in the S. of M.uri ....................................................................... 4
B. R..B.’s criminal conviction and his medical condition......................................................... 5
C. Judicial actions challenging M.uri’s lethal injection protocol ............................................................ 5
1. Judicial proceedings before 2014 ....................................................................................................... 5
2. Judicial proceedings since 2014 .......................................................................................................... 6
IV. ANALYSIS OF LAW ............................................................................................................................................... 11
A. Preliminary considerations on the IACHR's standard of review in cases involving the death
penalty ............................................................................................................................................................................ 11
B. R. to humane treatment, and not to undergo cruel, degrading, and unusual punishment
and right to a fair trial in relation to the method of execution and judicial remedies ................ 12
1. General considerations .......................................................................................................................... 12
2. A. of the case .................................................................................................................................. 14
C. R. of protection against arbitrary arrest, to humane treatment, and not to undergo cruel,
infamous, or unusual punishment, with respect to the deprivation of liberty on death row .. 16
D. The right to life and not to receive cruel, infamous, or unusual punishment with respect to
the eventual execution of Russell B.w .................................................................................................... 18
V. REPORT No. 28/18 ............................................................................................................................................. 19
VI. ACTIONS SUBSEQUENT TO REPORT No. 28/18 ......................................................................................... 19
VII. REPORT No. 30/18 ............................................................................................................................................. 20
VIII. ACTIONS SUBSEQUENT TO REPORT No. 30/18 ......................................................................................... 20
IX. FINAL CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ...................................................................................... 21
X. PUBLICATION ....................................................................................................................................................... 22

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