Florida's third death by lethal injection went awry...

Florida's third death by lethal injection went awry and was delayed for 33 minutes as technicians struggled to insert a lethal IV into the veins of a 49-year-old killer. When curtains between the death chamber and witnesses finally opened, the condemned man, Bennie Demps, who was strapped to a gurney, launched a seven-minute tirade: ``They butchered me back there. I was in a lot of pain. They cut me in the groin, they cut me in the leg. . . . This is not an execution, it is murder.'' Eyes bulging and voice quavering, he said the medical examiner would find ``a wound on my leg that they sutured back up. I was bleeding profusely.'' After Demps died, Florida State Prison Warden James Crosby said the delay was caused in part by the wait for final word from the U.S. Supreme Court and in part by the medical procedure. Demps spent more than half his 49 years on Death Row.Pope John Paul II had called on Bush to stop the execution. Through his representative in the United States, Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, the pope appealed to the Catholic governor's ``compassion and magnanimity.''