The Law Arizona execution takes nearly two hours to kill prisoner

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Amazing how often they seem to stuff this up. There must be a better system than this if you really want to execute prisoners.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-takes-nearly-two-hours-to-kill-prisoner.html

A double murderer took nearly two hours to die in Arizona after a botched execution.
Joseph Wood, 55, was put to death after being injected with a cocktail of midazolam, a sedative, and hydromorphone, a pain killer.
He had been sentenced to death for the 1989 murder of his girlfriend and her father.
Lawyers acting on behalf of Wood tried to halt the execution an hour after it began, because the inmate was "gasping and snorting".
But the execution, which began at 1.52 pm after a prolonged legal battle continued with Wood being pronounced dead at 3.49 pm
 

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ironically, it's the anti-capital punishment lobby that is causing this. They are organising consumer boycotts of drug companies that supply drugs for lethal injections. So the various states that still carry out executions are scrounging around for alternative drugs to use, which don't always work as well as the proper ones.

probably should go back to hanging, zapping or shooting.
 

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Should go back to hanging. Nice and quick. The worst that can happen is that the head comes off but hey, it just means that they are definitely dead.
 
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Not a fan of capital punishment, but yeah; what is it with the US and convoluted methods? Just shoot em in the heart or hang.
My preferred option is life in solitary, just a bed, access to reading material, toilet, 3 meals a day and a skylight.
 
Tie their back legs together and let us all enter a ballot to be able to club'em like baby seals.
They could run away on their "front legs"?:drunk:
 

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question- if someone survives an execution are they entitled to some kind of mercy for their troubles, or is the execution simply re-scheduled?
 

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Should have taken longer than two hours so as to properly satisfy the public's bloodlust.
 
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ironically, it's the anti-capital punishment lobby that is causing this. They are organising consumer boycotts of drug companies that supply drugs for lethal injections. So the various states that still carry out executions are scrounging around for alternative drugs to use, which don't always work as well as the proper ones.

That's not the only effect the boycott is having. The drugs they use for lethal injection are also used for sedation and anesthetic. So the restriction of access means patients in hospitals risk having inferior drugs used to treat them.

There was an article in a recent Scientific American on it.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ath-penalty-is-a-medical-procedure-editorial/

Supplies of propofol, a widely used anesthetic, came close to being choked off as a result of Missouri's plan to use the drug for executions. The state corrections department placed an order for propofol from the U.S. distributor of a German drug manufacturer. The distributor sent 20 vials of the drug in violation of its agreement with the manufacturer, a mistake that the distributor quickly caught. As the company tried in vain to get the state to return the drug, the manufacturer suspended new orders. The manufacturer feared that if the drug was used for lethal injection, E.U. regulators would ban all exports of propofol to the U.S. “Please, Please, Please HELP,” wrote a vice president at the distributor to the director of the Missouri corrections department. “This system failure—a mistake—1 carton of 20 vials—is going to affect thousands of Americans.”
 
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