Published on Jul 25, 2014
PROVIDED BY CNNNEXT.COM
Arizona death row inmate Joseph Wood was pronounced dead nearly two hours after his execution via lethal injection began Wednesday night.
Witnesses reported seeing and hearing Wood gasping and snorting in pain as the drugs struggled to take his life.
The third so-called “botched execution” this year, Wednesday’s events have rekindled the contentious debate on capital punishment.
RT’s Lindsay France has an in-depth discussion on the issue with associate director of the California Innocence Project, Alex Simpson.
