Executed Arizona Inmate Got 15 Times Standard Dose, Lawyers Say

Joseph R. Wood III was executed in Arizona last month.  The procedure took two hours.  It was the fourth botched execution so far this year, and prompted that Arizona's Attorney General to issue a temporary halt on the practice.  Wood’s attorneys have argued that the executioners injected him with 15 times the standard dose of a sedative and a painkiller during a procedure that lasted nearly two hours before their client was declared dead.  A New York Times Article addressing this can be read here:  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/02/us/executed-arizona-man-given-15-times-standard-dose-lawyers-say.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0