Legalities of further attempts of execution

A recent article has discussed the law about the legality of a second attempt to execute Tony Carruthers after the first attempt failed.

The article details that:

Executions are always cruel. But a second execution attempt would be the kind of cruelty that no decent society should countenance. Moreover, it would violate the constitutional prohibition of double jeopardy, which forbids trying or punishing someone twice for the same crime.

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