Ohio lethal injection takes 2 hours, 10 tries (AP/CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- Death penalty opponents called on the state to halt executions after prison staff struggled to find suitable veins on a condemned man's arm to deliver the lethal chemicals.

The execution team stuck Christopher Newton at least 10 times with needles Thursday to insert the shunts where the chemicals are injected.

He died at 11:53 a.m., nearly two hours after the scheduled start of his execution at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. The process typically takes about 20 minutes.

"What is clear from today's botched execution is that the state doesn't know how to execute people without torturing them to death," American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio attorney Carrie Davis said Thursday.

"Having one botched execution is too many; that Ohio has now had two botched executions in as many years is intolerable."
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/05/25/ohio.execution.ap/index.html

[William769]

1. Thats why I say use a new rope.

No fuss no muss.

[whistle]

2. Cruel and unusual punishment ... LIHOP or MIHOP

...has to be deliberate

[DemGa]

3. Barbarism plain and simple

Evolution is slow.

[Az]

4. Just a reminder, the state can kill you if it wants to

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