More than a third of the country's execution attempts this year were 'botched' or deemed visibly problematic, according to a year-end report released Friday by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC). The report — which called 2022 the 'year of the botched execution' — found that in 7 out of 20 executions, or 35%, something went wrong because of 'executioner incompetence, failures to follow protocol, or defects in the protocols themselves,' calling into question the efficacy of the longstanding practice.
383356 17: The execution bed sits empty on Death Row April 25, 1997 at Texas Death Row in Huntsville, Texas. About 450 prisoners are on the Row. Texas has the most executions in the US each year. The inmates are executed by lethal injection. More than a third of the country's execution attempts this year were"botched" or deemed visibly problematic, according to a year-end report released Friday by the.
Executions this year in Alabama, Arizona and Texas were botched when administrators were unable to set IV lines, which led to canceled executions or hourslong delays. On July 28, for example, it took executioners three hours to set an IV line before killing death row, marking"the longest botched lethal injection execution in U.S. history," according to the DPIC.
“The families of victims and prisoners, other execution witnesses, and corrections personnel should not be subjected to the trauma of an execution gone bad,” he said. . There were 11 executions just last year. But overall, the report notes, it's the eighth consecutive year that fewer than 50 death sentences were doled out in the U.S., the death penalty continues to be isolated geographically to six states: Alabama, Arizona, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas. Oklahoma and Texas alone account for half of the country's executions, each performing five this year.
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