Botched execution cases
Top 10 Archive, July 16, 2015
Listen to the audio HERE
I – Introduction
- What does the speaker imagine about what is going on in the prisoners’ heads before being executed?
- What do the cases under study here have in common?
- Reasons?
II – Case 10: Name of the inmate: ………………………………………………….
- Which crimes did he commit?
- When was he executed?
- How was the execution qualified?
- Execution method: …………………………………………..
- Name of the device: ……………………………………………………….
- Characteristics of the device?
- How long did the execution last? ……………………
- What were the consequences of the malfunction of the device?
- How many switches were necessary to finally kill the inmate? …………
- How did his lawyer react?
- How many volts were used? …………………
III – Case 9: Name of the inmate: ………………………………………………….
- Charge: ……………………………………………………………………………………………..
- He was sentenced to death in ………………………………………….. (date).
- Execution method: ……………………………………..
- Date of execution: …………………………………………………
- What went wrong?
- What did the authorities decide to do?
- Did this execution have an impact on the public?
