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http://abcnews.go.com/US/arizona-execution-takes-hours-prompts-plea-stay/story?id=24687542
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An inmate's execution with lethal drugs in Arizona today took almost two hours as the man gasped and snorted, prompting his lawyers to request an emergency halt to the procedure.
"The experiment using midazolam combined with hydromorphone to carry out an execution failed today in Arizona. It took Joseph Wood two hours to die, and he gasped and struggled to breath for about an hour and forty minutes," said Dale Baich, one of Joseph Woods attorneys. "We will renew our efforts to get information about the manufacturer of drugs as well as how Arizona came up with the experimental formula of drugs it used today. Arizona appears to have joined several other states who have been responsible for an entirely preventable horror -- a bungled execution.
Wood, 55, was convicted of first-degree murder February 25, 1991, and sentenced to death July 2, 1991.
Wood was involved in an unstable five-year relationship with his ex-girlfriend, Debbie Dietz, during the time of the crime. On August 7, 1989, Wood walked into the local body shop owned by her family and shot Debbies 55-year-old father, Gene Dietz, in the chest with a .38 caliber revolver, according to a statement from the AG.
Wood later located Debbie, and shot her once in the abdomen and once in the chest, killing her as well, the document stated.
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