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August 5, 2014

Documents: Arizona Prisoner Injected 15 Times in 2-Hour Botched Execution 
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Newly released documents show a death row prisoner in Arizona was
injected 15 times with a new drug cocktail during a botched execution
last month. Attorneys for Joseph Wood have called his death "the most
prolonged bungled execution in recent history." Wood gasped for air,
choked and snorted during the two-hour-long ordeal. He had been injected
with a relatively untested drug cocktail, eventually receiving 15 times
the intended dosage of each drug. Arizona has halted executions pending
a review of its protocols.

 

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