not everyone in the media is a good writer. in fact, most aren't. which explains why medical gloves wear name badges:

"It took nearly 20 minutes for officials, wearing medical gloves with their name badges removed to conceal their identity, to get the needles into Beardslee, who was tightly strapped to what looked like a dentist's chair."

courtesy of this brilliant writer. the article is about the guy who died by lethal injection in california last night.