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Another Botched Execution: 2 Hours to Die

By Jeralyn, Section Death Penalty
Posted on Thu Jul 24, 2014 at 09:58:00 AM EST
Tags: lethal injection (all tags)
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Joseph Wood was executed in Arizona yesterday. It took two hours to kill him. The execution was not halted, even though he repeatedly gasped and snorted during it.

An Associated Press reporter who witnessed the execution saw Wood start gasping shortly after a sedative and a pain killer were injected into his veins. He gasped more than 600 times over the next hour and 40 minutes.

Most disgusting comment, from a relative of the victim named Richard Brown:

Why didn't we give him Drano?

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    I'd disagree, the most disgusting comments... (5.00 / 4) (#2)
    by Dadler on Thu Jul 24, 2014 at 11:01:02 AM EST
    ...come from those having no immediate relation to the victims in the case. Family members of the victims, I'm sorry, can be forgiven for WHATEVER objectionable sh*t they say. Sorry, but if some guy killed my loved ones as he did to those folks, I'd bust through that glass to kill the phucker with my bare hands WHILE he was gasping. Not because I think it's right, but because violence destroys people and that destruction is almost always irreparable. That said, this is the reason the DP should be abolished. Because all it does is inflame our worst instincts as "modern and civilized" human being