"Groteske's Spectacle": Murderer (69) with Heart Device Receives Poison Injection

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The case around Byron Black is currently attracting attention. For the first time in the USA, a prisoner was executed with a poison injection despite a heart device. Now there is criticism: the 69-year-old had to suffer unnecessarily. A question of conscience.

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The U.S. authorities executed on Tuesday for the first time with a lethal injection of a criminal with a heart defibrillator in Tennessee, despite complaints from lawyers and civil organizations about a possible exacerbation of his suffering.The Tennessee Penitentiary Department carried out the execution with lethal injection around 15:00 GMT at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institute in Nashville.The U.S. Supreme Court and Tennessee Governor B…

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A prisoner in Tennessee, U.S.A., suffered a painful execution by lethal injection, because the pacemaker, a device that regulates heart beats, was not disabled, reported the Associated Press (AP). The authorities of the North American state executed the prisoner Byron Black without defibrillating, stressing that there was no knowledge of the effects that lethal chemicals could have on the heart. Byron Black, after the lethal injection, was able …