USA - Missouri. Russell Bucklew wants his execution videotaped.

Russell Bucklew wants his execution videotaped. Bucklew, who turned 46 on Friday, suffers from a congenital condition that has weakened and malformed his blood vessels. He has tumors growing in his nose and throat, he bleeds from his eyes and ears, and he has constant pain in his face that requires pain medicine every few hours. His condition - and the botched Oklahoma execution that left Clayton Lockett writhing on the gurney before he died of an apparent heart attack last month - worries him. He told the Associated Press he doesn't know what will happen after his lethal injection Wednesday. He will be the 1st to be executed in the United States since Lockett. So Bucklew is asking a federal court to allow the videotaping of his death - to record any evidence of constitutional violations, namely cruel and unusual punishment. The AP, Guardian and 4 other news organizations filed a lawsuit in a Missouri court Thursday to try and force the Missouri Department of Corrections to release more information about where the state is getting the drugs used for lethal injections. A day later, a lawyer filed a motion on behalf of Bucklew. A videotape would preserve evidence if he survives and wants to oppose another execution or is injured and wants to file a claim, the motion states. It further states that if the inmate dies but suffers "prolonged and excruciating execution or chokes and suffocates to death," the video would be evidence for a claim by his estate. A spokesman for the Missouri Department of Corrections did not immediately return a call for comment. It wouldn't be the 1st filmed execution. A federal judge in California authorized taping an inmate's gas chamber death in 1992, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The video was later destroyed. According to Hand off Cain, on July 21, 2011 in Georgia, the execution of Andrew DeYoung was videotaped under an order of  Superior Court Judge Bensonetta Tipton Lane. The tape was sealed for the judge's exclusive use. Lane ordered the videotaping after attorneys for another death row inmate, Gregory Walker, claimed that Georgia's lethal injection procedure causes unnecessary pain and suffering.