Botched Lethal Injection Takes Nearly Two Hours to Kill Arizona Inmate

A via The Verge ^ | July 23, 2014 | Nathan Ingraham

[lbryce]

An execution taking place in Arizona tonight appears to have gone horribly awry. According to a report from the Associated Press, inmate Joseph Rudolph Wood "gasped and snorted" and was still alive more than an hour after the execution began. Wood was not pronounced dead until 3:49PM MT, one hour and 57 minutes after the beginning of the procedure.

Wood's lawyers filed an emergency appeal during the execution, noting that he was "gasping and snorting for more than an hour" but was still alive some 70 minutes after the execution began. The whole process should have taken 10 minutes, Wood's lawyers said.

[lbryce]

Gasped and snorted. Gasped and snorted. Sounds just like when he was alive. And under what horrific painful conditions did the murderer subject the victim to until they died? I consider the murderer lucky that he only got to gasp and snort. And he got a bonus as well. He lived two hours longer than he was supposed to. What's he complaining about?

[dfwgator]

So?

[Azeem]

“Botched Lethal Injection Takes Nearly Two Hours to Kill Arizona Inmate”

So? He’s dead. Not botched at all.

[John W]

Not botched if he’s dead.

[Diogenesis]

Only the corrupt Obama administration will care
about this.

Does the DO”J” care about the victims?
Not unless they are black Democrats with Koran.

[Busko]

Right!! He was executed and he died. I wonder what he was executed for? Not for selling ice cream to kids.

[taxcontrol]

Nitrogen Asphyxiation

[Cubs Fan]

No mention of the victim in the article.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

We need to go back to firing squads.

Doctors are becoming more squishy by the year and are demanding not to participate.

Drug companies are becoming more squishy and refusing to make the drugs.

We need to get people trained in justified killing to justifiably kill these felons.

[trisham]

He deserved worse.

[ilovesarah2012]

Ripping babies apart limb by limb is okay, though.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Heroin overdose should work well.

[Tau Food]

Nitrogen Asphyxiation

I've heard about that. Is nitrogen asphyxiation really better than poisons like Zyklon B?

[SkyDancer]

But some that are called doctors abort kids ... that’s okay. To execute a murderer they have qualms.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yeh I would be curious to know how long it took his victim/victims to die likely in tremendous pain and horror.

[gcraig]

Agreed. Firing squad would permanently fix the problem...

[arthurus]

To the headline->so effing what?

[Bryanw92]

Lethal injection is stupid. A well-built guillotine works every time.

[arthurus]

The Russians did it the most efficiently of all in the bad old days, and I am told, currently. 1 9 mm bullet behind the ear.

[loungitude]

We need to get people trained in justified killing to justifiably kill these felons.

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There are (tens of) thousands of them, being trained to kill adults, children, pets, and baby wildlife. So, no problem.