Alabama’s troubles executing inmates have put a national spotlight on the state. And perhaps no challenge has been greater than finding a vein to start the three-drug lethal injection mixture.
from Miller’s failed execution attempt and have Miller examined for injuries.
The process of sticking an inmate about to be executed is closed to media witnesses and to attorneys for the inmate. Only state representatives are allowed to witness the process. In Alabama, there are 166 inmates on death row; the average age of the inmates is 55. But, Dunham said, the inmates’ health matches a person at least in their 60s due to possible prior drug use, prison conditions, lack of proper nutrition and exercise, and more.
“That represents to me a seriously broken system here that is charged with the serious act of killing someone,” Zivot said. The Alabama Department of Corrections has never disclosed any process that reviews executions or failed executions. “They learn nothing from each time,” Zivot said. “They do the same thing over and over again, that is seemingly to inflict torture.”governor called for an “independent review” of the state’s execution procedures after a botched execution and halted any further executions there until the review was complete.
Zivot said the ADOC hides its mistakes and is unwilling to examine their process in both an impartial and public way. “All they do is they do a terrible job, and they just hide it,” he said.Members of the media and attorneys for the condemned should be allowed to witness the procedure of setting up an inmate to die, said John Palombi, an Assistant Federal Defender for the Middle District of Alabama who handles death penalty cases.
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