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Arizona Makes Changes After 'Not Botched' Execution

Dec 23, 2014 2:39 AM CST

Arizona Makes Changes After 'Not Botched' Execution

Judge rules that Oklahoma can resume executions

(Newser) - Arizona's execution of Joseph Wood was "not botched," a state-commissioned review has concluded, even though it took almost two hours for him to die. The director of Arizona's Department of Corrections says the lethal injection was "done appropriately and with the utmost professionalism," the...

In Arizona, State Makes Up Execution Rules as It Goes

INVESTIGATION

Aug 18, 2014 2:34 PM CDT

In Arizona, State Makes Up Execution Rules as It Goes

Times investigation shows history of botched, improvised executions

(Newser) - The botched execution of Joseph Wood last month in Arizona showed that the state Corrections Department was "making it up as it went along,” says Wood's public defender. Now a New York Times investigation suggests the incident may be part of a greater pattern. Wood's lawyer...

IV Lines Were
Placed Correctly in
Botched Execution

says doctor

Jul 28, 2014 3:08 PM CDT

IV Lines Were Placed Correctly in Botched Execution

Medical examiner finds no incorrect placement, says drugs went into veins

(Newser) - Intravenous lines were placed correctly during the execution of an Arizona inmate whose death with lethal drugs took more than 90 minutes , a medical examiner said today. Incorrect placement of lines can inject drugs into soft tissue instead of the blood stream, but the drugs used to kill Joseph Wood...

Supreme Court OKs Drug Secrecy in Az. Execution

Supreme Court OKs Drug Secrecy in Ariz. Execution

Jul 23, 2014 2:22 AM CDT

Supreme Court OKs Drug Secrecy in Ariz. Execution

Joseph Wood's 1st Amendment case turned down

(Newser) - The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Arizona to execute an inmate whose lawyers argued that he had a right to know more about how he was to be killed. The court sided with the state against Joseph Rudolph Wood, who could be executed as soon as this morning,...

Federal Judge: Forget Lethal Injections, Use Firing Squads

Federal Judge:
Use Firing Squads,
Not Lethal Injections

Jul 22, 2014 3:21 AM CDT

Federal Judge: Use Firing Squads, Not Lethal Injections

Don't pretend killing isn't brutal, Kozinski says

(Newser) - Killing people is a brutal and messy business, and if Americans can't deal with that, they shouldn't be condemning people to death, a top federal judge says. In a strongly worded dissent in an Arizona lethal-injection case, Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the Ninth US Circuit Court of...