Amnesty lists execution horrors
Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Thursday October 4, 2007
The Guardian
The execution chamber at the Texas department of criminal justice in Huntsville, USA. Photograph: Paul Buck/EPA
The use of lethal injections in the US has led to at least nine bungled executions, including one in which the prisoner took 69 minutes to die and another in which the condemned man complained five times: "It don't work," a report by Amnesty International says today.
The report contains a catalogue of botched executions dating from 2000, when lethal injection was adopted by 37 of the 38 US states with the death penalty.
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2 comments on Amnesty Lists Execution Horrors
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ekyprogressive
said 10 months ago
Death penalty has been shown to not really be effective as something that reduces crime anyway, so it needs to be ended.[THUMBDOWN]
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greeneyedgemini
said 10 months ago
I agree!
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