Death penalty for serial killers
Vein for lethal injection not found – execution in the USA aborted
An execution chamber in Alabama. More than 2,300 death row criminals are currently on death row in the United States, some of them for decades.
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Horror within horror: Everything is prepared for an execution in the USA, but the correctional authorities in Idaho don’t want to risk anything and call off the execution. Because the staff can’t find a suitable vein on the convict to administer the lethal injection.
There is one in the US state of Idaho Execution was aborted because medical staff could not find a suitable vein for the lethal injection in the condemned convict. The Idaho Department of Correction in the capital Boise announced this on Wednesday (local time).
“Some are calling today’s events a failure, but the opposite is true,” agency director Josh Tewalt wrote in the statement. “The process to prevent failure worked, and I think that’s an important differentiation.” The person sentenced to death was a 73-year-old serial killer, reported the US broadcaster ABC.
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More than 2,300 people are awaiting execution in the USA
Also on Wednesday, according to media reports, a criminal was executed by lethal injection in the state of Texas. The 50-year-old was sentenced to death in 2000 for the murder of his cousin and his fiancé, but maintained his innocence until the end, as the US broadcaster CNN reported.
Last year, 24 death sentences were carried out in the USA. More than 2,300 criminals sentenced to death are currently on death row, some of them for decades.
New killing method: prisoner executed with nitrogen for the first time
Executions of criminals sentenced to death in the USA always cause a stir. In January, a death row inmate was executed for the first time using a new nitrogen method.
The star reported:
During the procedure, nitrogen is supplied via a face mask, resulting in death from lack of oxygen. Human rights experts denounced this as cruel because the method was untested and could result in a painful death.