Florida mans executation takes 34 minutes .....
 

"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Defense attorneys and death penalty opponents were outraged Thursday over an execution in which the condemned man took more than half an hour to die, needed a rare second dose of lethal chemicals, and appeared to grimace in his final moments."

"Diaz, 55, was executed Wednesday for the 1979 murder of the manager of a Miami topless bar."


This bothered me until I saw he killed the manager of a tit bar.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061214/...rida_execution

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oh no . . you mean he may have actually suffered? Those bastards, they killed Angel!

http://www.poster.net/south-park/sou...ny-3700222.jpg

And then he cried out "FREEDOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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:pimp

in the end... he's dead and thats all that matters

The electric chair is so much more efficient

Humm didn't know they stopped using old smoky..

Remember the good old days... when bullets still killed people?

i've heard some really scary reports about the "humane" execution styles of these days.. for example, they say that lethal injection slows your heart rate, stops your breathing, and a chemical "to kill you".

But if your heart rate slows, you can't get the poison that kills you, and since you're not breathing you die from asphyxiation, but sense your heart rate is so slow, you really don't need that much oxygen to actually process anything..

this is what i remember after a year or so..

R

he killed someone in '79...thats the problem, how long he lived

He must rest in peace now:)

That's exactly what I was thinking.

I will buy the ammo and even pull the trigger if they'll let me.

Guilty...

Appeal within 6 months...Guilty again?

Walk 'em out of the court room, put them on their knees and Bam...shot right in the back of the head.

hmmmmmmmmmm......

what about all the convicted murderers that get released from new technologies/different views on race today?

What new changes could happen in the future?

Would you still be so eager to euthanize people?

R

that piece of shit killed someone in 1979. And sat on death row till 2006

27 years. It costs 35k a year to have 1 person on death row. thats 945k. I think they should have gone all out on the first shot, and tripled the does,. Hell it only costs like 35$


Sad thing is. old sparkey cost 15cents in gas.

holy batman,27 years

Not Florida's. Old Smokey was very old, and would blow off body parts before killing a guy

I think if the evidence is overwhelming, they should kill them

there has been many times when evidence has been overwhelming , enough to covince the jury that the person is guilty , sentenced to death only to later find out that the evidence was planted etc

the problem is that even after the person has been found guilty and later found out to be evidence its damn hard to set that person free due to legal crap and red tape

I think it's never right to take a person's life. Ever.

I can't believe some states still have the death sentence... ridiculous.

once you become a monster then who gives any heart to them
let them die slow and painfull
kill of enough killers that way and the murdering might slow down

Ah.. Yet another raving success for the US Judicial System

Nothing is a surprise - the track record of actually efficiently completing death sentences is abysmal - much like everything else.

Congrats on yet another fuckup :thumbsup

True BA - Florida alone released 22 people from death row. DUH?? They can hardly carry out an execution without a fuckup (the condemned catches fire or, this instance, can't even perform "lethal injection" correctly).

It's hardly a surprise that the ABA Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project identified "serious problems" in the Florida’s justice system. They think???

Angel Diaz did his own defence, tho could not speak English and
On November 2006 AI published a summary of this case and expressed "legal concerns". Can't see how anyone could have "legal concerns" - it's Florida!