Posted on 07/24/2014 8:40:54 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
"He has been gasping for more than an hour," lawyers said in an emergency appeal to halt the botched execution of Arizona inmate Joseph Rudolph Wood yesterday. "He is still alive." As the hour mark passed, Wood's lawyers filed an appeal to a district court and even called Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, the New York Times reports. Kennedy declined to halt the execution, while the district court didn't respond until after Wood had died, almost two hours into a process that usually takes around 10 minutes. Gov. Jan Brewer has ordered an investigation into the execution of the 55-year-old who murdered his estranged girlfriend and her father in 1989.
State officials say Wood was comatose and didn't suffer during the execution. "He was snoring," says a spokeswoman for the Arizona attorney general. "There was zero gasping or snorting, and that's just the truth. He was asleep." Members of the press who witnessed the execution, however, say they heard a lot of gasping: "He gulped like a fish on land," writes Michael Kiefer at the Arizona Republic. "The movement was like a piston: The mouth opened, the chest rose, the stomach convulsed. And when the doctor came in to check on his consciousness and turned on the microphone to announce that Wood was still sedated, we could hear the sound he was making: a snoring, sucking, similar to when a swimming-pool filter starts taking in air."
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Hammer. Head. Apply hammer to head until gasping stops.
Or, even better, sedative, collect all blood, harvest all usable organs, discard remainder.
Seventeen days???
That was probably too easy. LOL
AS soon as they get euthanasia they all will be supplying the drugs.
Seems to be common. There was another execution a few weeks ago, same time frame.
There has been lost the effect between crime and punishment.
First off, there is nobody that can say an innocent person has not been executed. I understand the nuance you are striving for but it seriously misses the context of the subject.
More importantly, our legal system is not set up as you say. It follows a basic tenant that it is a bigger crime to convict and innocent person than to let 10 guilty people go free. The system you are talking about is the one in China where it is generally accepted that for the common good some innocent people will have the bad fate of being falsely convicted.
My objection to the death penalty is that we do not have the opportunity to right a wrong when someone has been falsely convicted. Once they have been executed, society has no chance to correct the infringement on the individuals personal liberties.
My objection to the death penalty is reinforced every time I hear of someone that has been exonerated after having spent a decade or more in jail.
Further to our conversation.
Dallas man exonerated for rape after being cleared by DNA tests
http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/dallas-man-exonerated-for-rape-after-being-cleared-by-dna-tests
Wrong link?
My comment with the link was from 2014, so I’d say the link is no longer good.
I see that now. I have no idea how I got to that 2014 posting. Sorry!
LOL!! That’s okay. I don’t even remember posting the comment.
Lions in a Coliseum—great for the live crowds, would be great TV as well.
If we are going to fall like ancient Rome, we might as well have some of their fun on the way!
Better than the Detroit Lions, that's for sure.
The Roman promoters really did things right
They needed a show that would clearly excite
The attendance was sparse so they put on a fight
Threw the Christians to the lions, sold out every night
Give the people what they want
You gotta give the people what they want
The more they get, the more they need
And every time they get harder and harder to please
-The Kinks
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