Botched Lethal Injection
January 10th 2007 03:37
Ouchies! I have to admire this guy's staying power.
Personally, I am pro death penalty. Heck, I can name 10 people from my third world country who deserves to be hanged for their indescribable crimes. Yes, that's right. I'm one of those "an eye for an eye" nuts. But that's just me and the holy schmoly Philippine Catholic Church would spank me or have me stoned...to death.
t took Angel Nieves Diaz 34 minutes to die from the time the two executioners inserted the IV tubes into each arm and began pumping the chemicals into his body. His eyes widened. His head rolled. He appeared to speak. "It was my observation that he was in pain," Neal Dupree, a lawyer for Diaz and a witness to the execution, wrote in an affidavit. The faint signs of movement from the body strapped to the trolley continued for 24 minutes. "His face was contorted, and he grimaced on several occasions. His Adam's apple bobbed up and down continually, and his jaw was clenched."
Diaz's execution in Florida on December 13 for the murder of the manager of a topless bar was the last in the state for some months to come. Almost immediately after his body was removed from the execution chamber, it became clear that the execution had gone wrong.
The cocktail of three chemicals that was meant to have sent him to oblivion within moments had led to a painful, lingering death. After a report from the medical examiner found 12-inch-long chemical burns on Diaz's arms, the state governor, Jeb Bush, opened an inquiry into his death and suspended all executions, granting more than 370 people on Florida's death row at least a temporary reprieve.
read the rest here.
Diaz's execution in Florida on December 13 for the murder of the manager of a topless bar was the last in the state for some months to come. Almost immediately after his body was removed from the execution chamber, it became clear that the execution had gone wrong.
The cocktail of three chemicals that was meant to have sent him to oblivion within moments had led to a painful, lingering death. After a report from the medical examiner found 12-inch-long chemical burns on Diaz's arms, the state governor, Jeb Bush, opened an inquiry into his death and suspended all executions, granting more than 370 people on Florida's death row at least a temporary reprieve.
read the rest here.
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Comment by Krystal
Justice has to be done, and at the end of the day justice isn't always pretty, let alone neat and tidy.
What bothers me here is not that this man died, or died unpleasently, but that the trial wasn't exactly the pinnacle of fairness and justice. Many cases in the US of the death peanlty being handed down seem in invovle rather dubious evidence and I can't help the search is mroe for a high profile conviction and pats of the back for the police than for seeking a just outcome.
As for spanking to death.... seems a little... weird? Very uncatholic, I would suspect, unless it's one of those nun things?! Either that or i'm just sick