No matter how horrendous the crimes for which John Woods was convicted

(a double murder I think) and executed for in Arizona, few people(irrespective of their stance on capital punishment) can be comfortable with the fact that due to the botched nature of his mode of execution(lethal injection) he expired not within minutes but after an agonizingly protracted TWO HOURS.

Some will argue that who cares, he got what he put through his two victims though?-let him suffer, it's no more than the(insert insult here) deserved in the first place!

The reason his execution( or torture to death if you like) was so protracted was because due to an EU wide ban on chemicals being assoicated with lethal injection in the US being sent to death penalty jurisdictions in America(which include Pennsylvania where I spend Thanksgiving with my cousins every November). The EU argues that chemicals like sodium thiopenthal should be used to ease sufferings and prolonge life NOT end it( I agree entirely) which has led to capital punishment states such as Arizona, Missouri(and possibly Pennsylvania) using weird and untested cocktails of drugs upon their executees- shades of Mengele or Unit 731!

Personally given that there are laws(including federal ones) in most US states forbidding wilful cruelty to animals(whether wild or domesticated) but NOT death row inmates, perhaps anti-capital punishment groups should campaign for abolition on the grounds of "equal rights with animals!"( or maybe death row inmates are considered to be beneath even cattle, pigs, sheep or household pets!)

Anybody else think as I do?

Terry