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Man executed with controversial drug despite lawyer's appeal
DailyMail ^ | 3 April 2014 | By Associated Press

Posted on 04/03/2014 9:33:01 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister

A serial killer was put to death Thursday in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his lawyers' demand that the state release information about where it gets its lethal injection drug.

Tommy Lynn Sells, 49, was the first inmate to be injected with a dose of newly replenished pentobarbital that Texas prison officials obtained to replace an expired supply of the powerful sedative.

Sells declined to give a statement. As the drug began flowing into his arms inside the death chamber in Huntsville, Sells took a few breaths, his eyes closed and he began to snore. After less than a minute, he stopped moving. He was pronounced dead at 6:27 p.m. CDT - 13 minutes after being given the pentobarbital.

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To: CorporateStepsister
Put an animal "to sleep" and it is celebrated as the right thing to do. Absolutely humane.

Do the same thing to a murderous piece of excrement and it's cruel and unusual punishment.

Maybe veterinarians should be hired to "put down" criminals.

61 posted on 04/04/2014 3:28:20 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Dagnabitt

I guess we could have injected him with something that causes cancer. Then we could have watched him die over a year or so.

That seems pretty common these days. I wonder how they would feel about that.


62 posted on 04/04/2014 4:00:20 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: CorporateStepsister
Sells' attorney is not a public defender. Death penalty cases in Texas are generally not handled by public defenders - especially post-conviction.

Sell's attorney is with an "anti-death penalty" clinic attached to the University of Texas specializing in trying to overturn death penalty convictions. This is not the first time she has brought litigation attacking the execution drug protocol.

63 posted on 04/04/2014 4:07:52 AM PDT by writmeister
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To: tumblindice; All

http://prodeathpenalty.com/Pending/14/apr14.htm

>>UPDATE: When asked if he wanted to make a statement before his execution, Sells replied: “No.” Terry Harris, whose 13-year-old daughter, Kaylene Harris, was fatally stabbed by Sells in 1999 in South Texas, watched as Sells was executed, saying the injection was “way more gentle than what he gave out.” “Basically, the dude just took a nap,” the father told reporters later outside the prison. Earlier in the day, the US Supreme Court declined to halt the execution based on claims by Sells’s lawyers that he had the right to know the name of the provider of the drug that would be used in the execution. “My sister didn’t get the constitutional pain and suffering,” said Shawn Harris, the victim’s brother, adding that Sells’ punishment was “pretty easy” compared to what his sibling suffered: being stabbed 16 times and having her neck repeatedly slit.


64 posted on 04/04/2014 4:33:50 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: CorporateStepsister

How much did the lawyer bill for the last futile appeal?

Who paid him?

Is the lawyer not guilty of filing a futile appeal? Is there a fine for futile appeals?

Should the costs of prisoner maintenance during the futile appeals not accrue to the lawyer?


65 posted on 04/04/2014 4:39:07 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: sargon

I don’t see how you get to “I am full of glee” when the starting point is “I think the punishment was shockingly lenient.”


66 posted on 04/04/2014 5:30:32 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: CorporateStepsister

It’s not a controversial drug. The death penalty is “controversial” to some people (yet abortion never is in MSM headlines). Pot no longer is “controversial”.

But someone decided to stop selling it to Texas to execute condemned murders under the rule of law and whoooaaaa it’s controversial.

Would rope be controversial?


67 posted on 04/04/2014 7:10:08 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: Dagnabitt

It’s cruel and unusual punishment to have to put your life in the hands of a trial lawyer.


68 posted on 04/04/2014 7:11:09 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: chiefqc
Chipper works real well also.

Yea, but the cleanup afterward is a real pain in the neck.

69 posted on 04/04/2014 8:25:35 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: galtman

Not only that, we could have them built with prison labor. Imagine how much a criminal serving a regular sentence might rethink his life choices if he is putting together what potentially could be his undoing if he stays on that path.

I’m not say, I’m just saying.


70 posted on 04/04/2014 1:13:34 PM PDT by CougarGA7 ("War is an outcome based activity" - Dr. Robert Citino)
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To: CougarGA7

Heck every VETERINARY has them. So how can they be in short supply?

Hanging from in front of the court house is my notion of justice, with a big audience. Sends a message.

Just as when we got licks in front of 34 other teens, they got the message! And that means 34 witnesses that there was NO abuse by the teacher.


71 posted on 04/05/2014 8:12:09 AM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: GailA

It’s not really a case of who has them, its about whether or not they will give them to penitentiaries. That’s why something like the guillotine or like you say, hanging, is much more effective. You don’t have to depend on an outside source to get your means of fulfilling the sentence.

Worse case scenario, you have to send deputy Bob down to the Home Depot.


72 posted on 04/05/2014 8:16:19 PM PDT by CougarGA7 ("War is an outcome based activity" - Dr. Robert Citino)
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To: skr

Jesus never said we were NOT to be held accountable to government for our crimes. Just that if we repented truly in our hearts He would forgive us.


73 posted on 04/05/2014 10:32:14 PM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: bert

We the tax payers and VICTIMS pay for it! Same goes when you must travel for a parole hearing. Victim made a victim again, to support the criminal who victimized them or their child.


74 posted on 04/05/2014 10:35:44 PM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: CougarGA7

Any Vet supply house has them, it is where Vets get their meds. Every hospital has Versed, just OD it.Pain meds will or sleeping pills, OD will bring death. Painlessly.

Why do you think I don’t take the crap? If I can’t hear the weather alarm I am in trouble, we live in tornado alley.


75 posted on 04/07/2014 2:37:02 AM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: GailA

Just so.


76 posted on 04/07/2014 3:09:21 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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