An Arizona prisoner was given a lethal injection and died after struggling for 2 hours, sparking controversy

A prisoner in Arizona was given a lethal injection and died after a 2-hour struggle, sparking controversy. According to the "Daily Mail" report on July 24, the person executed in Arizona on 23 local time...

was 55-year-old Joseph. Joseph Rudolph Wood, who was sentenced to death for the 1989 slayings of Debra Dietz and her father, Eugene Dietz, at their family's auto shop in Tucson. The Arizona Supreme Court suspended his execution on the morning of the 23rd to accept the final appeal. State courts, citing unnecessary harassment, declined to provide details of the execution, such as the names of the drugs and the executioners. Wood's attorney, Dale Baich, took a new legal tack by arguing that the court's refusal to provide details about the injection violated his client's First Amendment rights. But in the end, the execution continued and the time was adjusted to 1 p.m. According to Attorney General Thomson's office, Wood struggled for an hour and 57 minutes after the execution and was pronounced dead at 3:49 p.m.

A judge who also opposes the death penalty said firing squads should seek a more humane method of execution. Pocky also said, "The secrecy that Arizona goes to great lengths to protect undermines our democracy because it prevents the public, courts and prisoners from knowing whether executions comply with federal and state laws." He also said, "The use of drugs implies a personal need to use drugs for execution, and the person being executed looks calm and serene. This is a mask that attempts to hide the cruel truth of the death penalty."