Update 11:45 p.m.: John Winfield wasn't the only inmate scheduled to die Tuesday night.
Marcus Wellons -- a Georgia man who raped and murdered a 15-year-old girl in 1989 -- was pronounced dead at 11:56 p.m., according to the AP.
Like Missouri, Georgia uses a single lethal dose of pentobarbital to execute its death-row inmates; also like Missouri, Georgia hides identity of the compounding pharmacy that makes the killing drug. Lawyers for both men challenged their respective states to reveal how its prison officials acquired the pentobarbital, but to no avail.
Wellons was the first inmate to be executed in the U.S. since April 29 , when a botched execution in Oklahoma resulted in Clayton Lockett taking more than 40 minutes to die.
So, how did Georgia's execution go? The New York Times' Alan Binder reports the process went off "without abnormality," and took about twenty minutes. Also, a guard apparently fainted.
Georgia prisons spokeswoman says execution of Marcus Wellons began at 10:41 p.m. He was declared dead at 11:56 p.m.
— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) June 18, 2014AP witness says Marcus Wellons entered the execution chamber at 10:52 p.m. The lethal injection itself did not begin until at least 11:32.
— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) June 18, 2014Media witnesses said they saw no abnormalities in the execution of Marcus Wellons, except for a guard fainting.
— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) June 18, 2014Follow Danny Wicentowski on Twitter at @D_Towski. E-mail the author at [email protected]
