Videotaping executions
First, this: “A Georgia man convicted of killing his parents and sister was executed on Thursday after the courts allowed what was likely the nation’s first video-recorded execution in almost two decades. Andrew DeYoung, 37, was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday night at the state prison in Jackson after courts turned down his appeals. He was pronounced dead at 8:04pm. DeYoung blinked his eyes and swallowed for about two minutes, then his eyes closed and he became still. A video camera and a camera operator were in the execution chamber about 5 feet away from DeYoung.
The execution was set for Wednesday but was pushed back a day as the state tried to block the video recording. Lawyers for death row inmate Gregory Walker, who sought the recording, argued that would provide critical evidence in his appeal about the effects of pentobarbital. Walker’s attorneys want to show that Georgia’s reconfigured three-drug lethal injection procedure does not adequately sedate the inmate and could cause pain and suffering.
In court filings, state prosecutors argued that having a videographer in the execution chamber could jeopardise the state’s carefully planned security. They also said creating a video came with the risk of it being distributed.”
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