Delayed execution/Verspätete Hinrichtung
am 25.05.2007 von Transblawg
Christopher Newton, aged 37 and weighing about 120 kg (265 pounds) could not be executed for 2 hours because it was so difficult to find a vein in his arm. This is one of the objections to the death penalty: the impossibility of guaranteeing it can be administered humanely. The Chillicothe Gazette reports:
Newton weighed at least 265 pounds, and prison medical staff struggled to find veins on each arm. The execution team stuck him at least 10 times with needles to get in place the shunts where the needles are injected.
He continued to talk, smile and laugh with the prison staff; sometimes his belly would jiggle. At one point, he was given a bathroom break.
When he eventally was moved from his holding cell and strapped to a table in the death chamber, he made this short statement: “Yes, boy, I could sure go for some beef stew and a chicken bone. That’s it.”
This was therefore a delay before he left the holding cell.
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