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Georgia botch?

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Georgia took 35 minutes last night to hook up, before killing, Curtis Osborne.  The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports, “Executioners had trouble putting murderer to death.” Executioners struggled for 35 minutes to find a vein before Curtis Osborne died by lethal injection Wednesday for a 1990 Spalding County double murder. Osborne, 37, was pronounced dead at 9:05 p.m., 14 minutes after his executioners injected the first of three fatal drugs. He was the second man Georgia has executed in a month. He also was the fourth person in the country to die by lethal injection since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the method was constitutional. Even after a 55-minute delay while the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed his final appeal, the execution that was to have occurred at 7 p...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on June 05, 2008 (boomark / email).