Execution of killer takes 20 minutes
Friday, January 17, 2014
LUCASVILLE, Ohio -- A condemned man appeared to gasp several times and took an unusually long time to die -- more than 20 minutes -- in an execution carried out Thursday with a combination of drugs never before tried in the U.S.
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