Executions and death sentences hit near-record lows this year as Americans' support for the death penalty continued a decades-long slide.
also showed that support for the death penalty continued a steady slide from its peak in the mid-1990s to 55 percent this year — one percentage point up from last year’s 50-year low.
Austin Sarat, a political science professor at Amherst College who wrote the 2014 book “Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty,” said in an email that while there’s no official definition, he considers an execution botched when it “departs from the state execution protocol or from standard operating procedure for the particular method used.”
Hooper had been tied down for more than 20 minutes before prison officials inserted IVs, unsuccessfully trying to place a line in his left forearm and ultimately putting one in his right forearm and cutting into his leg to place one in his right femoral artery,. After his death warrant was read, nothing happened for more than five minutes, prompting Hooper’s inquiry.
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