There was another "botched" execution on Wednesday, this time in Arizona, where it took Joseph Wood nearly two hours to die after being administered a lethal injection that was supposed to take 10 minutes to kill him. This led our own Tommy Christopher to wonder why it would be ...read more

The news of Arizona's botched execution of Joseph R. Wood III Wednesday afternoon has become another dominant story in this summer of news that won't quit, but what's really unusual about this event is the way in which it is being covered by the television news media, and how ...read more

Joseph Rudolph Wood III began the end of his life on August 7, 1989, when he walked into an auto body shop and killed his 29 year-old ex-girlfriend Debbie Dietz, and her 55 year-old father Gene Dietz, with a .38 caliber revolver. Police shot Wood several times when he picked up ...read more