Posted on 08/01/2014 8:12:40 PM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman
TUCSON, Ariz. Arizona executioners injected Joseph Rudolph Wood with a lethal combination of drugs 15 times during the nearly two hours it took for him to die, according to documents released Friday.
Records released to Wood's attorneys show he was administered the sedative midazolam and the painkiller hydromorphone in 50-milligram increments 15 times between 1:53 p.m. and 3:45 p.m., for a total of 750 milligrams of each drug. He was pronounced dead at 3:49 p.m. after gasping more than 600 times while he lay on the table.
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So, like, what is the problem with shooting these people?
Or, as I heard on caller to a radio station suggest (he said he was an MD, but who knows) - giving them a huge overdoes of heroin?
In the old days, I have read and heard that the hanging was conducted in the courthouse square and families would picnic while watching. A great warning to the young that crime does not pay and free entertainment.
Oh yes, that’s true.
Life before electricity! Sing around the old piano, have a quilting bee, or go see a guy get executed!
I think my grandfather saw a hanging in Colorado when he was a boy. That would have been the early 20th Century.
“administered ... fifteen times”
My vet put my beloved Labrador, with his head in my lap, out of his misery in a few seconds.
15 “administrations”. What’s up with that? Is someone stepping on the poison, selling to veterinary supply houses?
Do these guys not know what they’re doing? How tough is it to inject a scumbag with a lethal dose?
yes sir! He shot the woman in the stomach..........then somewhere else, I forget exactly where.
If there were any justice, they should have shot this guy in the stomach WITHOUT A SEDATIVE!
Paul Edgecomb: An execution. A successful one.
Hal: How in the name of Christ can you call that a success?
Paul Edgecomb: Eduard Delacroix Joseph Rudolph Wood is dead.
Second hardest thing I have ever had to do was putting down my favorite dog.
For me the 7.62 represents nostalgia. I learned to shoot with my parents firearms. A 7.62 rifle was my first firearm, first that was mine.
About the worst that can happen when you hang them is that their head comes off. We need to go back to hanging these murdering animals. The hitech bull**** is for the birds. Too much “botching”.
This is just pathetic. No one in the State owns a pistol? 1 45ACP round to the temple and .0001 second later it is all over. Cheap and effective.
We have allowed the lawyers to make this way harder then it needs to be...
There was a Frog doctor (1738-1814) who came up with an absolutely fool-proof method. No need for medical professionals to be in attendance, the result being obvious upon inspection!
The impeachment of Louis XVI |
And upon holding aloft!
The Constitution bars cruel and unusual punishment.
750 milligrams of each, not 750 grams.
I keep saying... we should inject “em” with Frack Water. They say that stuff is REALLY deadly and it would drive liberals even more crazy.
I wouldn’t have a problem with the process based on Ground Hog Day.
Inject him 15 times with .308 slugs and I can guarantee his death sentence is complete.
Government efficiency on display.
Interesting that midazolam causes retrograde amnesia (listed as side effect) as well as respiratory depression. The Gasping that was observed was most likely agonal respirations as the drugs shut down his respiratory drive. HE did not feel a thing, if you dont believe me, ask him.
If he was still alive I’d call it botched.
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