Associated Press
PHOENIX — An independent investigation of the nearly two-hour execution of an Arizona death row inmate is expected to be completed in the next two weeks.
Assistant Attorney General Matthew Binford, who is representing the state in a lawsuit involving the execution of Joseph Wood, said during a court status conference Wednesday that a report is expected by mid-November.
Binford said the findings will go to Gov. Jan Brewer and to Arizona Department of Corrections director Charles Ryan, who may change the drug protocol for executions based on the report’s recommendations.
Attorneys representing several prisoners and the First Amendment Coalition of Arizona are seeking information about lethal injection methods used by the state.
It took nearly two hours and 15 doses of injection drugs before Joseph Wood died on July 23.