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Federal judge rules state not required to reveal source of execution drugs
The right of the press to access executions does not imply the right to related information, according to U.S. District Court Judge Murray Snow.
Wood given 15 doses of lethal drugs during two-hour execution in Arizona
An execution team violated state execution policy by injecting Joseph Wood with 15 doses of a lethal drug combination, the inmate’s attorney said.
Doctor says Wood may have sensed he was suffocating
Seven times in two hours a masked medical doctor stood over inmate Joseph Wood with his back to the execution witnesses. The unknown doctor was touching Wood’s eye with a cotton swab and sticking a tongue depressor down his throat to look for reactions that come with consciousness.
Autopsy doctor finds nothing out of the ordinary in inmate’s execution
The doctor who did the autopsy on executed inmate Joseph Wood said today he found nothing out of the ordinary for an execution during the examination.
AP reporter’s account of Arizona execution
Joseph Rudolph Wood looked around the death chamber and glanced at the people making preparation for his execution, locating the proper veins and inserting two lines into his arms.
Brewer orders full review of state’s execution process, but says inmate died in a ‘lawful manner’
A condemned Arizona inmate gasped and snorted for more than an hour and a half during his execution Wednesday before he died, his lawyers said, in an episode sure to add to the scrutiny surrounding the death penalty in the U.S.
Arizona high court allows execution to proceed
Arizona's highest court is allowing the execution of a condemned inmate to proceed after considering a last-minute appeal that put his lethal injection on hold.
Arizona high court delays planned execution
Arizona's highest court has temporarily halted the execution of a condemned inmate as it considers a last-minute appeal.
Supreme Court allows Arizona execution to proceed
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed an Arizona execution to go forward amid a closely watched First Amendment fight over the secrecy surrounding lethal injection drugs in the country.
Arizona execution drug case heads to Supreme Court
A case challenging Arizona's refusal to reveal detailed information about the lethal combination it will use to put an inmate to death is now headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
