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## Video: Arizona's Agonizingly Long Execution

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_Published 2014-07-24. Inside Arizona's Agonizingly Long Execution_


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## Transcript

It, it was, it was tough for everybody in that room. And, and at a, at a certain point you wondered if he was ever going to die. Joseph Wood, convicted of murder and sentenced to death, put to death in a process that took nearly two hours. He was gasping for air he was struggling to breathe. He was moving up, on, the restraints. To watch a man lay there for an hour and 40 minutes gulping air, I can liken it to if you catch a fish and throw it on the shore, the way the fish opens and closes his mouth. The Department of Corrections says Wood was unconscious the entire time. Wood was convicted of the 1989 killings of his estranged girlfriend and her father.

He received no sympathy Wednesday from a relative of his victims. Everybody here from what I heard said it was excruciating. You don't know what excruciating is. What's excruciating is seeing your dad lying there in a pool of blood, seeing your sister lying there in a pool of blood, that's excruciating. This man deserved it. A similarly drawn out execution in Oklahoma this year raised concerns about the drugs now used in lethal injections. With other countries refusing to export sodium thiopental to the United States. For use in executions. The two drugs worked, he eventually died. But I can't imagine this is what the criminal justice system had hoped for when they came up with this new drug protocol.

Wood's lawyer says Woods was concerned the Department of Corrections would be experimenting on him. A relative of his victims takes issue with that entire conversation. Well, why didn't we give him a bullet?

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