“The execution of a convicted murderer in Arizona lasted for nearly two hours on Wednesday, as witnesses said he gasped and snorted for much of that time before eventually dying.
This drawn-out death of Joseph R. Wood III in Arizona 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.””* The Young Turks hosts Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola (TYT University) break it down.
*Read more here from Mark Berman / The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/07/23/arizona-supreme-court-stays-planned-execution/
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Serves him right as Karma paid Wood a well deserved visit for how he terrorized and killed his ex and her father. Why doesn’t anyone seem to understand that this is justice towards the victims of his heinous crimes?