Bizarre and Surreal

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this. Perhaps there’s never been anything like it. But we now have the transcript of the discussion between the defense lawyer, the prosecutor and the judge as Joseph Wood lay gasping and snorting before finally dying for almost two hours during that botched execution in Arizona. So, learn how three lawyers try to set up a conference call while trying to litigate whether to cut short an execution and try to revive the condemned man. Yes, it’s that bad and that weird. Here it is.

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