Holder told Gwen Ifill on PBS NewsHour that he is “greatly troubled” by the series of prolonged executions carried out in the US states of Ohio, Oklahoma and most recently Arizona.
The Plain Dealer: Flawed Arizona Execution Must Force Another Look At Ohio’s Death Cocktail
Another execution. Another debacle. Another debate. This time the backdrop was a death chamber in Arizona. Condemned killer Joseph Rudolph Wood III took an hour and 40 minutes to die from lethal injection. For most of that time, he “gasped and struggled for breath,” according to an account from Reuters…
Murder victim’s daughter new chairwoman of Ohioans to Stop Executions
Melinda Dawson, the new chairwoman of Ohioans to Stop Executions, has personal experience with the criminal justice system.