Oklahoma botched its first execution in six years, that of John Grant, who was noticed convulsing and vomiting on the gurney. The Guardian revealed that another demise penalty state, Arizona, spent 1000’s of dollars obtaining hydrogen cyanide for its fuel chamber, the identical deadly chemical utilized by the Nazis in Auschwitz. Five states, along with the US government, judicially killed prisoners this 12 months. Virginia’s seismic shift away from judicial killings has created a demise penalty-free zone on the north-east seaboard of the US that runs from Maine’s border with Canada down to the sting of the Carolinas.
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