If we're going to continue to execute people in the US...

[elSicomoro]

...we should probably get it right...from NBC:

An Arizona execution took nearly two hours on Wednesday, and the prisoner's lawyers said he gasped and snorted for an hour.

The execution of double-murderer Joseph Wood — which Arizona carried out with a lethal-injection it had never before tried — is certain to fan the debate over how U.S. states carry out the death penalty.

"I've never witnessed an execution that took that long," defense lawyer Dale Baich told NBC News. "The state of Arizona today conducted a failed experiment."

Baich said there was no sound in the witness room, but "he was gasping and snorting for an hour and 40 minutes or so."

Some will argue that we do not need to be humane in putting people to death. I argue that we must be better than the people we are executing.