New Photos Reveal What a Botched Lethal Injection Procedure Looks Like [w/pic]

The Wire via Yahoo! News ^ | May 29, 2014 | Abby Ohlheiser

[Slings and Arrows]

On Thursday, the New Republic published a series of photos from a 2006 botched lethal injection in Florida, weeks after the details of a similarly problematic procedure in Oklahoma made national news. The 2006 lethal injection death of Angel Diaz was well-reported at the time, but magazine editor Ben Crair's discovery of the photos — submitted as evidence during an appeal of a separate court challenge to lethal injections — adds a new depth to the conversation of the reality of modern capital punishment.  

Diaz likely died a painful death. "Angel Diaz winced, his body shuddered and he remained alive for 34 minutes," the Tampa Bay Times reported in 2006. Officials had to administer a second dosage of drugs to the inmate in order to kill him, and the needles that were supposed to be in his veins were actually administering the drug into the tissue around them, as the AP reported. The photos show the result of such a mistake on Diaz's body (warning: graphic image below): 

[Gene Eric]

Should we know who that is, DJ MacWoW?

[Slings and Arrows]

No need - I assume that rifles and rope are still available in Florida.

[Gene Eric]

Well, Sharia slaughters innocence, so perhaps that’s not an ideal example of what we’re not to become.

[DJ MacWoW]

Nah. It’s just a generic pic found in a search on “blank facial expressions”. lol I suppose that I could have used a pic of a platypus or something.............

[Pharmboy]

Yahoo news will publish photos from abortions when?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

Cruel? Not really.

Unusual? It is not unusual for a lethal injection to not go as planned. So I vote to bring back hanging.

[The Duke]

THAT’S_GOTTA_HURT_PING!

[Gene Eric]

Oh, okay.

[deoetdoctrinae]

Woo Hoo!

[DJ MacWoW]

LOL!!!

[Slings and Arrows]

Yahoo news will publish photos from abortions when?

[Slings and Arrows]

Not anymore.

[deport]

I’m not sure about death throes but they give sedatives to knock a person out when
they do surgery. I don’t understand why that isn’t done before or with the
medications that are designed to stop the living processes. Maybe they do
as I don’t know the details of execution process.

[lacrew]

Different guy. This guy shot somebody to death during a robbery.

[UCANSEE2]

What’s wrong with hanging,

Anti-racism protests.

the firing squad,

Anti-gun protests.

the electric chair

Uses too much fossil fuel produced energy (NOT GREEN).

or the gas chamber?

Anti-Nazi protests.

[Afterguard]

He’s dead. It worked fine. My only suggestion would be a .45 in the forehead. It would be cheaper and 100% effective every time.

[piroque]

Diaz likely died a painful death.

There's only one word for his death.

GOOD

[virgil283]

...lets leave it up to nature. Take the condemned half way to Australia and leave them in the water.

If they can swim two thousand miles though sharks then whoever finds them can have them...

[trisham]

What a joke. I’ve seen worse on someone admitted to the emergency department.

[Menehune56]

I hope Texas brings back Old Sparky like Tennessee just did.