Inmate Languished for Two Hours After Botched Lethal Injection, Kim Jong-Un Mad About Dance Video: A.M. Links

The two-hour-long death of convicted murder
Joseph R. Wood III has renewed calls for the abolition of the death
penalty. Wood was given a lethal injection in an Arizona prison on
Wednesday, but did not die for another two hours. He “gasped and
snorted” for a long time before succumbing,
according to reports.
U.S. Ninth Circuit Court Judge Alex Kosinski, who dissented in
the decision to administer the death penalty to Wood, said lethal
injections
should be replaced with firing squads. The injection shields
the public “from the reality that we are shedding human blood,” he
said.
North Korean officials have asked China to remove a dance video
that mocks leader King Jong-Un from the internet. The video
features Jong-Un’s head superimposed over kung-fu dancers and
fighters. Chinese officials were unable to do anything about it,

they said.
President Obama is drawing criticism for refusing to let the
press
accompany him to several fundraising events this week.
Jar Jar Binks is
more popular than the U.S. Congress.