Man Tells Executioners: ‘It’s Not Working’
A double murderer was put to death at the Southern Ohio Correctional Institution in Lucasville but not until after one of his veins had collapsed, causing the condemned man to sit up and tell his executioners, “It’s not working,” officials said.
Ohio Department of Corrections spokeswoman Andrea Dean said the execution of Joseph Clark, 57, was delayed about 90 minutes because technicians had trouble initially finding a site in Clark’s arm for the intravenous line carrying the chemicals.
Shortly after the poisons were supposed to have been pumping into his body, she said, he sat up saying, “It’s not working. It’s not working.”
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