Death Penalty Takes 2 Hours
Just back from important medical duties, Dr. Richard Kimball emails:
Death is always sad. Sometimes undeserved, sometimes needed. But this is just funny.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/05/25/ohio.execution.ap/index.html
From CNN we read about the botched lethal injection that took over two hours to administer:
Death penalty opponents called on the state to halt executions after prison staff struggled to find suitable veins on a condemned man’s arm to deliver the lethal chemicals.
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But Newton, who had insisted on the death penalty as punishment and made no attempt to appeal, chatted and laughed with prison staff throughout the delay. It took so long that the staff paused to allow Newton a bathroom break.

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