Florida Lethal Injections, Murders Put on Hold
By Scott Ott, Editor-in-Chief, ScrappleFace.com
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(2006-12-16) — After a botched execution that took 34 minutes to end a convicted murderer’s life, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has suspended all death sentences until a commission can review lethal-injection procedures “to ensure they don’t inflict cruel and unusual punishment on their helpless victims.”
In a gesture of goodwill, Florida’s leading association of murderers also announced a temporary hold on premeditated and/or serial killings as well as brutal rapes, according to a spokesman, “until we can determine if some of our victims experience discomfort or pain.”
The Sunshine State Coalition of Capital Criminals released the statement through its ACLU attorney, pledging “a full-out investigation of our procedures to determine their constitutionality.”
Concerns about the comfort of the state’s execution method revived this week when Angel Nieves Diaz, who spent more than two and a half decades on death row for a 1979 murder, seemed to clench his jaw and grimace during the normally-painless death penalty procedure.
The eighth amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits “cruel and unusual” punishments, however experts note that 27 years on death row is not unusual.
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