More than a third of U.S. executions in 2022 were botched, a new report finds. The record-high number of mishandled executions has called states' ability to perform them into question, say death penalty researchers.
"The country is moving away from the death penalty at the national level, while the states that are insistent on carrying out executions have been engaging in more and more extreme conduct in trying to do so," Robert Dunham, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, told NPR.
He also called the record number of botched execution attempts"conservative" because the dataset was limited to incidents in which the prisoner was inside the execution chamber. "There were a number of executions that were called off even before they got to the execution because of failures to comply with the state protocol," Dunham said.This year, 18 people were executed in Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Alabama, Missouri and Mississippi — all by lethal injection. Many of the difficulties this year were related to difficulty inserting an IV line.
Another reason why it may be difficult for staff to find a prisoners' vein is that people on death row disproportionately have health problems. "The health of the individuals who are being scheduled for execution is worse. And stress affects health. Stress affects the accessibility to prisoners' veins," Dunham added.the death penalty or have not carried out an execution in over a decade.
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