Florida To Investigate Botched Execution

At least his head didn't catch on fire like a past botched execution. Officials are saying this problem was due to the liver problem of the inmate. However,

(AP)Paul Doering, a University of Florida pharmacy professor who is familiar with the lethal injection chemicals, said even if Diaz had a diseased liver, it would not have made any difference on how the drugs worked.

"This explanation doesn't make a bit of sense," Doering said. "It is the greatest fairy tale since Cinderella."

Dr. Mark Heath, an anesthesiologist at Columbia University Medical Center who has studied lethal injection cases across the country, said the effects of drugs used in an execution can be influenced by the medical condition of the prisoner.

"However, it's quite unlikely that the unusual features of this execution, if in fact it was unusual, are fully attributable to hepatic (liver) disease," Heath said.

We shall see what happens after this investigation.