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Executing John Marek for Senate

When I was looking for coverage of John Marek?s execution yet to see if there were any complications with the lethal injection, I ran across one of the more disgusting news stories I have ever seen. Governor Charlie Crist, who is running for U.S. Senate against arch-conservative and hero of the far right Fmr. House Speaker Marco Rubio, allowed the AP into his office so we can all get a first hand look at what goes on in the 48 minutes leading up to an execution. Read it and gag: Gov. Charlie Crist silently held two framed photos of Adela Marie Simmons as a voice came over his speaker phone Wednesday evening, telling him the next in a series of eight syringes was being injected into the arm of the man who killed her.Crist?s office was silent except the whir of the air conditioner as his chief of staff and three members of his legal team sat and listened with him for each update in the execution of John Richard Marek...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on August 21, 2009 (boomark / email).