Complex sentence: Wood's lawyers filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court an hour into the procedure, requesting that the prolonged execution be halted; the appeal was denied by Justice Anthony Kennedy, with word coming half an hour after Wood's death.
Split into simpler sentences: Wood's lawyers filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court an hour into the procedure, requesting that the prolonged execution be halted. The appeal was denied by Justice Anthony Kennedy, with word coming half an hour after Wood's death.