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The New York Times<\/a> reports on Alabama calling off the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith after struggling to insert intravenous lines and running out of time before his death warrant expired at midnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe recent spate of disastrous lethal injection executions have shown that whatever the drug, whatever the protocol, condemned prisoners often spend their final hours in agonizing pain and distress,\u201d said Director of Reprieve US Maya Foa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times reports on Alabama calling off the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith after struggling to insert intravenous lines and running out of time before his death warrant expired at midnight. \u201cThe recent spate of disastrous lethal injection executions have shown that whatever the drug, whatever the protocol, condemned prisoners often spend their … <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBotched execution called off in Alabama<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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