Foes decry how 'routine' it has become.
The execution is now in progress. He made one jerk when the voltage initially entered the body. The tapes, which span executions from 1983 to 1998, include no names, no shouts, no screams of pain. I would hope that most people will find the clinical way this is being done as really chilling. It's not clear what the effect will be of the death chamber tapes, broadcast Wednesday on WYNC, a New York public radio station, and repeated on other stations in the days since.