Arizona has faced criticism for how it carries out executions after several went so badly wrong they were said to amount to ‘torture’.
Arizona has put the death penalty on hold after several executions went so badly wrong they were said to amount to ‘torture’.
The US state’s first Democratic governor since 2009, Katie Hobbs, has ordered a review into death penalty protocols on Friday.The last execution before 2022 was in 2014, when Joseph Wood was injected with 15 doses, causing the prisoner to snort repeatedly and gasp more than 600 times before he died.Multiple US and pharmaceutical companies have blocked the use of their products in lethal injections.
But Arizona revealed in October 2020 that it had established a solid supply of lethal injection drugs had found a pharmacist to prepare them.Despite this the state has been accused of taking too long to insert the IV into a prisoner’s body. The Arizona Republic newspaper requested to witness last year’s three executions but each of these were rejected.
Ms Hobbs said she believes ‘it’s time to address the fact that this is a system that needs better oversight on numerous fronts’.
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