Is a 30-minute execution cruel and unusual punishment?

Submitted by Sonagi92 on Sat, 2006-12-16 00:02. ::
 
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AP) JACKSONVILLE Defense attorneys and death penalty opponents were outraged Thursday over an execution in which the condemned man took more than half an hour to die, needed a rare second dose of lethal chemicals, and appeared to grimace in his final moments.

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