Posted on 07/23/2014 6:02:06 PM PDT by lbryce
An execution taking place in Arizona tonight appears to have gone horribly awry. According to a report from the Associated Press, inmate Joseph Rudolph Wood "gasped and snorted" and was still alive more than an hour after the execution began. Wood was not pronounced dead until 3:49PM MT, one hour and 57 minutes after the beginning of the procedure.
Wood's lawyers filed an emergency appeal during the execution, noting that he was "gasping and snorting for more than an hour" but was still alive some 70 minutes after the execution began. The whole process should have taken 10 minutes, Wood's lawyers said.
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That’s too bad. One well placed bullet would work great. Then they wouldn’t have to suffer. /s
Bingo, great idea.
to every liberal that gets the vapours over lethal injection executions, i suggest the criminals get the same “death with dignity” as what granny gets with a “medically assisted suicide”
Leftists hate it when a murderer has a “Botched” execution, they call that inhumane..yet they have NO problem with killing a baby who survives an abortion..they have no problem taking that child and throwing him/her into the trash
Botched? He’s dead aint he?
LOL! Real out loud
How long would a 45 slug between the eyes take?
Would he be more dead, less, or about the same?
or an opiate overdose.
botch[ boch ]
1. do something badly:to do something very badly out of clumsiness or lack of care
2. badly done job:a job or task that has been done very badly
This execution doesn’t fit either definition. You can’t mess up killing someone unless they live. There is no “bad way” to kill someone.
Just put a blood donor needle in his arm and start filling plastic bags until he has nothing left to give. The blood gets donated to the local blood bank.
Loss of blood will just let him get drowsy and then die.
It all depends on the perspective you want to take.
Inert gas asphyxiation only takes a breath or 2 and its all over. No struggle, no panic, just nighty night, for ever.
Now if you want make a spectacle out of it, well, you can leave it like it is, or bring back “Ol Sparky, or the guillotine, or what ever way you can dream up on how to kill some one.
gasping and snorting sounds like a side effect of a heavily sedated subject.. he didn’t feeel a thing.
Rattle snake pit and wait? How long was the appeal process?
Cheaper to just use a bullet! But after 20 misfires!
Color me indifferent and just glad he's gone.
All the bleeding hearts that say capital punishment doesn't deter crime are WRONG! It has deterred crime in this botched execution because this guy will never be released to kill again.
Mivaudine
"I told you I was going to do it, I have to kill you."
Somebody should stop in and share a used six-pack with ol' Jimmy at the cemetery.
"We told you we were going to do it, we have to kill you, Jimmy."
I have changed my mind on the death penalty, but not on any moral, ethical or religious grounds. I still believe some people deserve to die for their crimes, but I have lost all confidence in the so-called justice system from bottom to top...incompetent cops, corrupt prosecutors, politicized judges and brain-dead jurors. I no longer trust the state with the power to take a life.
Sounds exciting. Must’ve at least raised his blood pressure
I agree....not botched if he is dead. But I think these people are purposely doing this to show how inhumane it is....if that is the case....go to a shooting squad. That would take seconds.
Nor should there be a medical execution. We've gotten to this point because we're squishy. We want it to be neat and clean and humans aren't neat and clean. Murderers don't kindly put their victims to sleep, or give them decades to argue against their self imposed fate.
I've heard people say that other methods are barbaric; of course they are! You are killing another human being. ANYTHING will be barbaric in looks.
But I always ask the same question: Which is more barbaric? Holding an 80 year old Alzheimer's patient for what he did 60 years before and no longer can remember? Or quickly ending his life while he and the victim's family can both know why it is happening?
The worst sentence I can ever imagine is life in prison with no hope of parole.
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