More than a third of the country’s execution attempts this year were “botched” or deemed visibly problematic, according to a year-end report. “States have been unacceptably cavalier in attempting to carry out executions,” one of the study’s authors said.
A view of the lethal injection death chamber at a Texas prison in 1991.
Executions this year in Alabama, Arizona and Texas were botched when administrators were unable to set IV lines, which led to canceled executions or hourslong delays. On July 28, for example, it took executioners three hours to set an IV line before killing death row, marking “the longest botched lethal injection execution in U.S. history,” according to the DPIC.
“The families of victims and prisoners, other execution witnesses, and corrections personnel should not be subjected to the trauma of an execution gone bad,” he said. . “I think that the advent of DNA evidence has really shown us how often we get cases, and even very serious capital cases, wrong.”in 2020 found that more than half of the wrongful criminal convictions are caused by government misconduct, which rarely has consequences.
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