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But when the electricity was shut off, the prisoner twitched. Then he gasped, and began breathing steadily. Stephens, although apparently unconscious, was not dead. According to Georgia execution procedure, five more minutes had to pass before a pair of prison doctors could examine him and certify that he was alive...
These days it takes a botched or otherwise unusual execution to grab public attention. Executions have become so frequent they are usually relegated to a couple of column inches on the inside pages of morning newspapers. From the end of the de facto ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in...
So far, the surge in executions has been an exclusively Southern phenomenon: all 20 this year have taken place in the South, eight of them in Florida. "The Sunbelt has always been the most execution-prone section of the country," says Watt Espy, a capital-punishment expert at the University...
Alpha Stephens was black, his victim white. Last year Stephens' lawyers filed a brief in the Supreme Court that cited the new study, arguing that Georgia's death penally law was discriminatory in practice. The same study is the basis of three appeals still pending before the federal...
The machines can park words outside time. But there are situations in which that won't do. The Governor calls at one minute to midnight. Ring. Click. "Hello, this is Warden Parker. I'm attending an execution at the moment, but if you'll leave your . . . Or...