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Another Botched Execution

Looks like another state (Ohio) botched an execution.Back in the days of drawing and quartering, burning people at the stake, boiling them in water, hanging, firing squad, etc. etc., it generally did not take an hour and a half to kill a person.And it goes without saying -- but we'll say it anyway, because that's what we do around here, we say things -- it shouldn't.But now comes the State of Ohio, which took somewhere around an hour and a half this morning to execute Christopher Newton after executioners had trouble locating a suitable vein.You can read more over at Abolish the Death Penalty and at Amnesty International. CNN.com also has coverage of the story.

Full post as published by Kansas Death Penalty Focus on May 24, 2007 (boomark / email).