Posted on 12/06/2021 12:50:21 PM PST by Red Badger
An Alabama death row inmate who survived a botched execution attempt in 2018 has died.
Doyle Hamm passed away Sunday morning from lymphatic cancer, according to his attorney, Bernard Harcourt. Hamm was diagnosed with the disease in 2014, his attorney said.
Hamm was sentenced to die for the 1987 murder of a motel clerk.
The State of Alabama attempted to execute Hamm by lethal injection in February 2018, but failed after staff and medical personnel worked for 2 1/2 hours to find veins in his groin, feet and legs.
After the execution was aborted, Alabama correction officials denied there was any problem with the procedure and said they halted it when they ran out of time before the midnight execution deadline.
Harcourt called the execution attempt "botched and bloody" at the time, and Hamm sued for his death sentence to be vacated, claiming the painful procedure was cruel and unusual punishment.
Hamm was on death row at Holman Prison in Atmore, Alabama, at the time of his death, Harcourt said.
Wattabout the not so botched Jidad at Ft. Hood?
Wattabout the not so botched Jihad Jihadi at Ft. Hood?
“Staff worked 2.5 hours to find veins in his groin”
For some convicts, that would be enough to die just from the embarrassment!
I wasn't aware the state had a schedule to keep for these events.
Good to know.
Well, at least the incompetence of govt employees remains at the usual stellar levels.
One way or another, no one gets out of life alive
He was bound to die of something....
Oh, they could have found plenty of veins in just a few minutes if they really tried. Maybe even a femoral artery.
Justice will out.
Reminds me of a Tucson Satanist who killed several people for sacrifice, then his friend when they chased him and he crashed his car. Died a year later in jail of cancer.
Guillotine: Quick, cheap, and reliable.
His veins were probably ruined by illegal drug injections.
They should require that all death row inmates be fully inoculated. Give them a 6-month stay every time they get a vaccination or a booster. Otherwise execute them. That would make it a lot quicker.
We need to go back to hanging. And don’t wait around for decades but go back to the swift justice we used to have. For example, the man who kidnapped and then murdered a child named Marion Parker in 1927, one of the most heinous crimes in the history of Los Angeles, was convicted and executed by hanging within a few months.
Why not just give him a big dose of the fentanyl seized by the DEA every day?
2.5 hours for an IV? They could have done a central line: IJ or subclavian. What incompetence.
Surprisingly last used in 1977 on Hamida Djandoubi in a Marseilles prison. Execution by the state ended in France in 1981.
Bring back hanging. It is cheap and effective.
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