appears to be running out for convicted Missouri killer Michael Worthington, who is scheduled on Wednesday to become the country’s first person executed since last month’s prolonged and problematic lethal injection of an inmate.
For nearly 120 minutes on July 23, Joseph R. Wood III snorted and gasped “like a fish out of water” before dying.
His execution, the country’s third this year described as “botched,” has prompted renewed calls for a halt to all lethal injections.
On Monday, the suggested a nationwide suspension of the death penalty. It and other death penalty opponents say that what happened during the botched executions violates protection against cruel and unusual punishment. continue to read here
For nearly 120 minutes on July 23, Joseph R. Wood III snorted and gasped “like a fish out of water” before dying.
His execution, the country’s third this year described as “botched,” has prompted renewed calls for a halt to all lethal injections.
On Monday, the suggested a nationwide suspension of the death penalty. It and other death penalty opponents say that what happened during the botched executions violates protection against cruel and unusual punishment. continue to read here
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