longest execution in U.S. history

For much of the 20th century, states used hanging, the gas chamber, the electric chair and occasionally firing squads. Then, in 1977, Oklahoma authorized lethal injection. (Representative Image/Pixabay)

The Case for Firing Squads

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Arizona succeeded in killing Joseph Rudolph Wood III on July 23, 2014, the day after the Supreme Court lifted a stay that had been issued by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The state administered 15 injections of midazolam and hydromorphone over nearly two hours. It was, at the time, the longest execution in…