It took 30 minutes
for an Alabama inmate
to die of a lethal injection.
In Oklahoma,
43 minutes.
Arizona halted executions
after the ordeal lasted
two hours.
They still search for the perfect drug.
Meanwhile,
fentanyl overdose deaths
spike across the country.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)
