On Wednesday afternoon, death row inmate Joseph Wood III was led to the execution chamber at Arizona State Prison Complex, where he offered his last words: "I take comfort knowing today my pain stops.

On Wednesday afternoon, in a ritual that has become increasingly—indeed almost numbingly—familiar, the state of Arizona administered a secret drug protocol that took almost two hours to kill a man.

After a high-profile legal battle over the drugs used in the lethal injection cocktail, the execution of convicted murder, Joseph Wood, finally went ahead in Arizona on Wednesday. The execution was ...

FLORENCE, Ariz., Aug. 2 (UPI) --Joseph Wood, the Arizona inmate who took two hours to die last month during his execution, was given 15 doses of a new combination of lethal drugs, prison records ...