Doyle Hamm, Who Survived a Bungled Execution, Dies in Prison at 64

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/29/us/doyle-hamm-dead.html

Doyle Hamm, a convicted murderer who in 2018 became the third death row inmate in America to survive a botched execution by lethal injection, died on Sunday in the William C. Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore, in southern Alabama. He was 64.

The cause was complications of the lymphoma and cranial cancer for which he had been treated since 2014, said his pro bono lawyer, Bernard E. Harcourt, a Columbia University professor of law and political science.

Mr. Hamm was terminally ill when the death sentence was scheduled to be carried out, at 9 p.m. on Feb. 22, 2018. Doctors had warned that his veins were inaccessible because of his treatment for cancer and hepatitis C as well as for his intravenous drug use. As a result, an execution team struggled for nearly three hours, puncturing him at least 11 times in his legs, ankles and groin and apparently injuring several organs before giving up at 11:27 p.m. because the legal death warrant expired at midnight.

“I wouldn’t necessarily characterize what we had tonight as a problem,” Jeff Dunn, the Alabama Corrections Commissioner, said in a statement that astounded reporters during a news conference at the time.

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1. Jesus fucking christ

he had terminal cancer and they had go through with the execution anyway? Fuckers.

[Xolodno]

2. All the while the state paid for his cancer treatment...

...just so they had a chance to kill him later.