Ohio execution delay prompts criticism (AP)

Source: Associated Press

Ohio execution delay prompts criticism

By JULIE CARR SMYTH, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 1 minute ago

LUCASVILLE, Ohio - 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 take 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.

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in comparison to life w/out parole, they take way too long
to "do it," and the poor who have so so legal help tend to get
it more than others but in Christopher Newton's case I feel
no sympathy for him. He killed a man because he thought he
was giving up too easy when playing chess. So what he got a few
pin pricks?

Because they couldn't find a vein and needed to poke him several times? Wow, I guess these people have never endured the torture of giving blood before. Would they prefer a quick bullet to the head?