Shocking New Details in AZ Botched Execution.

[RiffRandell]

Disgusting. 15 fucking times?????

Arizona death row inmate Joseph Wood was injected 15 times with an experimental lethal drug cocktail during the nearly two hours that it took him to die.

Once was supposed to be enough.

“The people who were in charge of putting him to death really did not know what they were doing,” said Austin Sarat, a death penalty expert and professor at Amherst.

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We can’t tell at this point whether he suffered, but what we do know is that the experiment failed. The department said one dose of this drug combination would be enough to kill a prisoner, and it was not enough,” said Dale Baich, Wood’s attorney. “Under the Arizona protocol, if the prisoner remains conscious, a backup set of drugs can be administered, but there’s nothing in the protocol that permits fourteen additional doses to be administered when the prisoner is unconscious.”

Link: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lethal-drugs-injected-15-times-botched-arizona-execution

[malaise]

1. Arizona death row inmate Joseph Wood was injected 15 times

These morons support torture

[In_The_Wind]

2. A case of cruel and unusual punishment by Arizona.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

3. If this is not C&UP, then I don't know what is.

[In_The_Wind]

4. yup

[sharp_stick]

5. I'd love to know the "medical experts"

these assholes had who told them that using this drug combination, even if it was good stuff, was suitable for this kind of application.

Opioids like hydromorphone will kill you, like they do to thousands of people who OD in this country but they do it by respiratory depression and that ain't a quick way to go. Just giving him more isn't going to make it any faster. I predicted a long process as did every other toxicologist I work with.

Everyone involved in this is a fucking idiot, if there were any medical doctors they should lose their fucking licenses just for being a fucking idiot never mind the oath breaking. Everyone else should be fucking fired, from the director to the assholes pushing the drugs to the other assholes strapping the guy to the gurney.

[RiffRandell]

6. I agree.

What a complete fuck-up, and think of the innocents on death row.

[brer cat]

7. If they have to do this,

maybe they should hire a vet. They know how to do it quickly, gently and with compassion.

[RiffRandell]

8. I thought the same thing.

I've put down 2 animals and it was peaceful. I bawled, but they felt nothing.