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Records show Arizona inmate was injected 15 times during lengthy execution some call botched
Fox News/Associated Press ^ | Published August 01, 2014 | Associated Press

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crime; murderer; punishment; reward
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

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?


41 posted on 08/01/2014 10:03:03 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: jocon307

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.


42 posted on 08/01/2014 10:09:23 PM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

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.


43 posted on 08/01/2014 10:15:13 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

“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?


44 posted on 08/01/2014 10:30:40 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Enten

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!


45 posted on 08/01/2014 10:32:17 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman
Hal: Okay, boys, what in the hell happened?

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.

46 posted on 08/01/2014 10:45:05 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
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To: tumblindice

Second hardest thing I have ever had to do was putting down my favorite dog.


47 posted on 08/01/2014 11:10:16 PM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: doc1019

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.


48 posted on 08/01/2014 11:41:13 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

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”.


49 posted on 08/02/2014 1:43:01 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a refugee camp! It is my home!!!)
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

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...


50 posted on 08/02/2014 1:44:02 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: doc1019
Go back to hanging, electrocution or firing squad, no chemicals involved. If chemicals are desired, the gas chamber works well.

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
with extreme prejudice

And upon holding aloft!

51 posted on 08/02/2014 2:03:25 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: GilesB

The Constitution bars cruel and unusual punishment.


52 posted on 08/02/2014 3:19:59 AM PDT by Blackirish
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

750 milligrams of each, not 750 grams.


53 posted on 08/02/2014 3:36:47 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

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.


54 posted on 08/02/2014 3:39:38 AM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

I wouldn’t have a problem with the process based on Ground Hog Day.


55 posted on 08/02/2014 4:44:52 AM PDT by RetSignman (obama: "For the love of Alinsky, how much more do I have to do to get them to impeach me"?)
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

Inject him 15 times with .308 slugs and I can guarantee his death sentence is complete.


56 posted on 08/02/2014 4:56:08 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman
You go in for a colonoscopy and in 5 seconds you are out. At that point they could slowly cut off your head with a butter knife and you would not know it. Out them out, then out a bullet through their brain. 10 seconds, max? The height of civilized absurdity is a politically correct execution.
57 posted on 08/02/2014 6:11:05 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ($$$$$$$$ DEFUND OBAMA! $$$$$$$$$)
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To: tumblindice

Government efficiency on display.


58 posted on 08/02/2014 6:24:25 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

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.


59 posted on 08/02/2014 6:40:46 AM PDT by contrarian
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

If he was still alive I’d call it botched.


60 posted on 08/02/2014 8:50:39 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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