How Not to Botch Executions
The way to end inhumane killings is to abolish capital punishment
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On July 23, Arizona killed murderer Joseph Rudolph Wood by lethal injection. Wood took two hours to die as he gasped for breath, by one account, “like a fish on shore gulping for air.”
Arizona’s was the fourth botched execution by lethal injection in the U.S. this year. One way to end these grotesque and inhumane spectacles would be to outlaw this method. The only sure way is to abolish capital punishment altogether.