Arizona executed convicted murderer Joseph R. Wood on Wednesday, a lethal injection that lasted for nearly two hours as Wood snorted and gasped, witnesses said.Read the rest here.
The drawn-out process prompted the governor to order a review and drew renewed criticism of lethal injection, the main method of execution in the United States, just months after a high-profile botched execution in Oklahoma.
“I’ve witnessed a number of executions before and I’ve never seen anything like this,” Dale Baich, one of Wood’s attorneys, told The Washington Post in a phone call. “Nor has an execution that I observed taken this long.”
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Even by the standards of lethal injection, that's terrible. The Christian faith, even to the debateable extent to which executions can be tolerated, cannot tolerate this kind of torture, which amounts to crucifixion. I cannot oppose execution in cases of terrorists or war criminals where there is no doubt as to the identity of the criminal, and the crime is of a horrific nature, but in cases such as this, it seems like nothing other than juridicially sanctioned aggravated murder. Suppose it were to emerge the victim of this horribly botched execution was innocent, or at the very least, legally not guilty?
"The Christian faith, even to the debateable extent to which executions can be tolerated, cannot tolerate this kind of torture, which amounts to crucifixion."
Calm down, William.
We put our dog down today. We've put 6 dogs down and none of them were "botched". Maybe we should hire veterinarians to do lethal injections. They get it right. That said, a firing squad, guillotine or hanging would have been quicker. Lethal injection is not for the condemned, it is for the living who can't stomach justice.
Can't we find a German scientist to make cyanide pills for our executions? That's what Goebbels
used on his children.
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