A Missouri death row prisoner has won a stay of execution to avoid becoming the first to be executed since Oklahoma’s botched killing last month. Russell Bucklew was scheduled to die by injection for killing a Missouri man during a crime spree in 1996. Defense attorneys asked for a stay because Bucklew suffers from a medical condition that causes weakened and malformed blood vessels, as well as tumors in his nose and throat. His attorneys said he could have experienced great suffering during the execution process. On Tuesday night, just over an hour before Bucklew was scheduled to die, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued an order halting the execution. Alito did not explain his reasoning, but Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster issued a statement indicating the full Supreme Court will consider the case on Wednesday. Alito’s move came after the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a stay on the execution granted earlier in the day by a smaller panel of the court. Bucklew could still be executed Wednesday night if the full Supreme Court rejects his appeal.