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Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "CNN reports that Ohio inmate Dennis McGuire appeared to gasp and convulse for roughly 10 minutes before he finally died during his execution by lethal injection using a new combination of drugs. The new drugs were used because European-based manufacturers banned U.S. prisons from using their drugs in executions — among them, Danish-based Lundbeck, which manufactures pentobarbital. The state used a combination of the drugs midazolam, a sedative, and the painkiller hydromorphone, the state corrections department told CNN. In an opinion piece written for CNN earlier this week, a law professor noted that McGuire's attorneys argued he would 'suffocate to death in agony and terror.' 'The state disagrees. But the truth is that no one knows exactly how McGuire will die, how long it will take or what he will experience in the process,' wrote Elisabeth A. Semel, clinic professor of law and director of the Death Penalty Clinic at U.C. Berkeley School of Law. According to a pool report from journalists who witnessed the execution, the whole process took more than 15 minutes, during which McGuire made 'several loud snorting or snoring sounds.' Allen Bohnert, a public defender who lead McGuire's appeal to stop his execution in federal court on the grounds that the drugs would cause undue agony and terror, called the execution process a 'failed experiment' and said his office will look into what happened. 'The people of the state of Ohio should be appalled by what took place here today in their name.'"
... for the torture fetishist psychos to bombard this conversation, fantasizing about torturing someone to death in 5-4-3-2-1.
Congratulations, America. You're up there with Saudi Arabia and Iran in how the rest of the world views your claims to be a "civilized" country.
Drill baby drill - on Mars
Hey, anonymous coward, show your name when you equate heroes and villains, or be counted among the villains.
Oops! You can't tell the difference, so you don't care.
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At the rate this busybody nonsense is going, hanging will make a comeback. That's all that this meddling nonsense will achieve. It will just eliminate the attempts to make the process less brutal.
Someone should institute the Tudor execution for traitors and then very publically thank Europe for helping pave the way.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Thirded... he tortured her (rape) without any concern for her well being or her baby's well being.
He killed her without any concern for her life or her baby's life.
I have no problem with torturing him without any concern for his well being, and killing him without any concern for his well being.
Don't do the crime if you can't take the consequences... just go to the movies and masturbate like your Paul Reubens.
Mod me down and I will come back stronger.
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" Refusing to support other countries in this particular traditions is one of the better things that has happened in politics over here the last few years." No, it's not. It's yet another example of how shit the EU is, and how they think that their unelected parasite 'politicians' should be able to interfere with other countries' justice systems. You must be either French, German, or gay.