is set to resume its executions with a death row inmate who battered a 75-year-old woman to death with a claw hammer - as critics say the flawed process is tantamount to torture.Convicted killer is scheduled to receive a in an IV by 6am Friday for the 2001 murder of Dorothy Epps. A handyman by trade, he murdered her in cold blood with both fists and a hammer before stealing her purse. It comes a year after the state infamously botched the execution of Joe Nathan James, who was subjected an agonizing three-hour ordeal as officials struggled to insert an IV line before killing him - the longest execution in US history. Two more executions were abandoned in September and November 2022 after officials painfully failed to insert IV lines into the inmates.
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