Idaho’s Experiment With Death

Let’s hope the next man or woman Idaho executes by lethal injection doesn’t end up like:

• Joseph R. Wood III, who gasped and snorted for almost two hours before Arizona prison officials pronounced him dead last July.
• Clayton Lockett, who spent 40 minutes last April flailing and clenching his teeth until Oklahoma prison authorities lowered the blinds to the witness room and called it off - only to have Lockett die of a heart attack.
• Michael Lee Wilson, who 20 seconds into his execution in January last year told Oklahoma prison officials: “I feel my whole body burning.”
• Dennis McGuire, whose execution in an Ohio prison in January 2014 lasted 15 minutes.