06-30-2011, 10:41 AM
victim: a 78-year-old woman who was brutally raped in her Savannah apartment more than 30 years ago ... she died of heart failure during rape.
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AJC
An attorney for a man whose execution appeared to have been botched has asked Georgia’s chief justice to stop any more lethal injections until the Department of Corrections investigates what went wrong Thursday night.
Attorney Brian Kammer also wrote Corrections Commissioner Brian Owens on Friday asking for “an immediate independent investigation into what appear to have been serious problems attending the execution.”
Roy Blankenship was put to death Thursday night for the murder of 78-year-old Sarah Mims Bowen in Savannah 33 years ago. In that execution, Georgia used a new sedative, pentobarbital, as the first of three drugs.
According to witnesses, Blankenship grimaced, jerked, lunged from side-to-side, gasped and appeared to yell out during the three minutes immediately after the first drug was administered.
Witnesses said his eyes remained open until the end, as had been the case with the two previous executions.
i agree...bring back the electric chair.
AJC
An attorney for a man whose execution appeared to have been botched has asked Georgia’s chief justice to stop any more lethal injections until the Department of Corrections investigates what went wrong Thursday night.
Attorney Brian Kammer also wrote Corrections Commissioner Brian Owens on Friday asking for “an immediate independent investigation into what appear to have been serious problems attending the execution.”
Roy Blankenship was put to death Thursday night for the murder of 78-year-old Sarah Mims Bowen in Savannah 33 years ago. In that execution, Georgia used a new sedative, pentobarbital, as the first of three drugs.
According to witnesses, Blankenship grimaced, jerked, lunged from side-to-side, gasped and appeared to yell out during the three minutes immediately after the first drug was administered.
Witnesses said his eyes remained open until the end, as had been the case with the two previous executions.
i agree...bring back the electric chair.