Execution of Joseph Wood

The execution of Joseph Rudolph Wood III occurred on July 23, 2014, at Florence State Prison in Arizona, with a two-hour lethal injection procedure that was described as "botched". Wood gasped and snorted for over an hour after the drugs were injected, with the entire procedure taking almost two hours; experts said the execution should have taken about ten minutes.

Execution of Joseph Wood

The execution of Joseph Rudolph Wood III occurred on July 23, 2014, at Florence State Prison in Arizona, with a two-hour lethal injection procedure that was described as "botched". Wood gasped and snorted for over an hour after the drugs were injected, with the entire procedure taking almost two hours; experts said the execution should have taken about ten minutes.