The state already faces a moratorium on its executions, set by federal Judge Gregory Frost and due to expire in two weeks. State corrections officials examined the troubled execution of Dennis McGuire in January and found that procedures were followed properly. They did propose an increase in the lethal dosage — to the level just […]
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Eric Holder ‘Greatly Troubled’ By Spate Of Botched Executions
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…