Stay of Execution Denied for Police Officer’s Killer
A convicted killer who argued that the state’s use of lethal injection was cruel and unusual punishment was put to death in Starke after the U.S. Supreme Court denied him a stay.
Clarence Hill, 48, was executed for the 1982 murder of a Pensacola police officer in a savings and loan robbery.
Hill had argued that the chemicals used in executions -- sodium pentothal, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride -- can cause excruciating pain. The first drug is a painkiller. The second one paralyzes and the third causes a heart attack.
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