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| Federal judge lifts stay on Arizona executions |
| By azcentral.com- Michael Kiefer |
| Published: 06/23/2017 |
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Almost three years after a death-row prisoner agonized on a gurney for nearly two hours during a botched execution, Arizona can legally resume executions — if the state Department of Corrections can find the drugs to do so. On Thursday, a U.S. District Court judge in Phoenix lifted a stay imposed in November 2014, four months after executioners hired by the Corrections Department injected 15 doses of a drug cocktail into convicted murderer Joseph Wood. One dose was supposed to kill him, but instead, Wood snorted and gasped as witnesses watched and attorneys argued in a telephone call to the judge about whether to stop the execution. Read More. |
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