Governor Suspends All Florida Executions

Angel Nieves Diaz, 55, was put to death Wednesday for murdering of the manager of a Miami topless bar during a holdup in 1979.

The condemned man not only took 34 minutes to die, but also needed a rare second dose of the lethal chemicals.

Dr. William Hamilton, who performed the autopsy, said the needles pierced Diaz's veins and then went into soft tissue in his arms. The lethal chemicals are supposed to go directly into the veins.

Hamilton refused to say whether he thought Diaz died a painful death.

"I am going to defer answers about pain and suffering until the autopsy is complete," he said.

He said the results were preliminary and toxicology tests and other tests may take several weeks.

Florida's comes the same day that a federal judge who imposed a moratorium on executions in California on Friday declared the state's method of lethal injection unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled in San Jose that California's "implementation of lethal injection is broken." But, he said, "it can be fixed."