Miller is only the fifth person in the last 76 years to survive an execution.
And difficulties accessing a useable vein also are common occurrences. Miller’s is the
where state officials have spent hours repeatedly jabbing inmates with needles as they tried without success to find such a vein.But most botched executions are not stopped no matter how much suffering the condemned person experiences. Usually the inmate who suffers from the state’s negligence or incompetence ends up dead.. And, if Alabama gets its way, he would be only the second one to live long enough to face another execution attempt.
The stories of these execution survivors remind us of the ways that executions fail and also of the tortured logic courts have used to allow states a second chance when the first one doesn’t succeed.in the electric chair. Francis, a Black teenager, was convicted and sentenced for the murder of Andrew Thomas, a pharmacy owner who had once employed him. Willie was 16 at the time of the murder.
. As a result of his negligence, the chair malfunctioned and failed to deliver enough electrical current to kill Francis. Soon after the executioner threw the switch, Francis screamed in pain, and the execution was stopped.to prevent it from doing so. He claimed that a second execution attempt would violate the constitution’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment and of double jeopardy.
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