CHICAGO (AP) Executioners who put 13 inmates to death in the last months of the Trump administration likened the process of dying by lethal injection to falling asleep and called gurneys “beds” and final breaths “snores.
Activists want him to go further by backing a bill abolishing the federal death penalty.
Mr Biden hasn t spoken about any specific action.
During the September 22 execution of William LeCroy, convicted of killing Georgia nurse Joann Lee Tiesler in 2001, the 50-year-old s stomach area heaved uncontrollably immediately after the pentobarbital injection.
It lasted about a minute, according to the AP and other reports.
Courts have ruled to allow federal execution of inmates to continue.(AP)
Executioner Eric Williams stood next to LeCroy as he died.
But Mr Williams made only cursory reference to âthe rise and fallâ of LeCroyâs abdomen in his account.
Executioners who put 13 inmates to death in the last months of the Trump administration likened the process of dying by lethal injection to falling asleep and called gurneys “beds” and final breaths “snores.” But those tranquil accounts are at odds with reports by The Associated Press and other media witnesses of how prisoners’ stomachs…
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