Arizona to change drugs it uses in executions after inmate repeatedly gasps and is given 15 drug injections during grueling two hour death

• The Department of Corrections will no longer use the drug combination used in the controversial July execution of Joseph Rudolph Wood
• The letter said the department will stop using the mixture of midazolam, a sedative, and hydromorphone, a painkiller
•  Instead, it will try to obtain pentobarbital or Sodium Pentothal, the powerful sedative also known as sodium thiopental

Long execution: Iinmate Joseph Rudolph Wood was given 15 doses of drugs and gasped over and over before taking his final breath nearly two hours later 

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