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With straps fastening his body to a gurney, Joseph Wood coughed and snorted as he gasped for breath. Wood’s execution was supposed to take 10 minutes and require one injection. Instead, he tried and failed more than 600 times to acquire air over the course of about two hours. He was injected over 15 times More

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