Farrow Asks Whether Guillotine Should Be Revived in Wake of Botched Execution

Another botched execution, this time in Arizona (MSNBC)

At 1:52 p.m. in Arizona, prison officials began the execution of convicted murderer Joseph Wood by lethal injection.

Nearly two hours later, he was dead.

Wood’s attorneys say he spent “more than an hour” of his last moments “gasping and snorting” through a botched lethal injection that violated his Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment. In the middle of his execution, Wood’s attorneys filed an emergency motion to stop the process and have him revived.