Convicted double murderer Joseph Wood was sentenced to death by lethal injection The last words of convicted double murderer Joseph Wood were to prove pitifully ironic. As doctors inserted IV tubes into his arms in the death chamber at Arizona State Prison in Florence on Wednesday, Wood thanked Jesus as his Saviour — in his own mind at least — and made his peace with the world. Strapped to a wheeled stretcher in an orange prison jumpsuit, he turned his head and grinned at the 20 or so witnesses watching him through a glass window from a small viewing room.
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Convicted double murderer Joseph Wood sentenced to death by lethal injection
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Witnesses say he lay 'snorting and gasping for breath' in final moments
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Killer took two horrific hours to die at Arizona state prison in the US
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Experts predicted his last few moments may prove watershed in American way of execution
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