Posted on 03/07/2018 7:49:13 AM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Shocking new pictures lay bare Death Row inmate's injuries from botched execution he said was so painful that he just wanted doctors to 'get it over with'
A Death Row inmate wished for death during a botched execution that saw him stabbed 11 times in the legs and groin with needles.
Doyle Lee Hamm was due to be executed on February 22 for the murder of Patrick Cunningham, but the procedure had to be called off after doctors were unable to find a vein.
Hamm, who was too weak to stand after the ordeal, was left bleeding from the groin and urinated blood an hour later, a medical examiner's report says.
Bernard Harcourt, Hamm's attorney, had warned ahead of time that cancer treatment had left him with compromised veins and that he was likely to be subjected to 'cruel and needless pain.'
Harcourt has now launched a legal suit against the Alabama Department of Corrections, saying Hamm's treatment amounted to torture.
On Monday a medical examiner's report including new images of Hamm's injuries were filed which give an account of his suffering.
According to an interview with Hamm carried out by Dr Mark Heath, an anesthesiologist from New York, on the night of the execution he was taken into a chamber with around nine people inside and strapped down to a gurney.
Two men dressed in hospital scrubs then took a leg each and worked their way up attempting to find a vein.
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Air tight room. Pump it full of of pure nitrogen.
The air we breath is 78% nitrogen. We have plenty and requires no licensing and very minimal training.
No pain. No struggle. (Nothing more than a petulant child holding his breath.) Nite nite forever. Works every time it has been tried.
Air tight cages filled with nitrogen is an execution method used by pest removal specialists here in urban Virginia. State law forbids catch, relocation and release.
The nice thing about the nitrogen gas execution method is that there is an extremely abundant, no cost supply of the gas. So no possible interference with the supplier by groups opposed to the death penalty like there has been with lethal injection drug suppliers.
What was wrong with a firing squad or rope?
What’s wrong with hanging? You can even reuse the rope, so it’s economical.
I thought a botched execution automatically gave you a pardon (from execution)
I think I would be OK with that.
As long as it results in life in prison.
The memories would be probably profound.
Very good for the soil, too, I would imagine.
Suggest they just withhold food and water from the condemned. We were told that was such a dignified way for Terry Schiavo to die.
Patrick Cunningham was unavailable for comment.
Pure, dry nitrogen gas is both cheap, non-toxic, and lethal. Put the condemned person in a sealed chamber, pump it full of N2 for about 15 minutes, then purge with natural air and remove the corpse.
Ok. Hang him.
Next.
Let’s see. I had C-spine surgery in Nov last year. When they knocked me out, they could have just as easily put me down forever and I wouldn’t have known a thing.
I sat in the gas chamber chair at a state prion once. That chamber is small! When the door is closed it almost touches your knees!
One bit of gallows humor: There is a permit from the EPA on the wall of the execution room stating that this facility may vent noxious gases to the atmosphere.
Yellow Mama was also built by a prisoner thus there was no labor in constructing Alabama’s chair in the 1920s.
The 1983 electrocution of John Evans was like a scene out of the movie The Green Mile. It was not pretty but it was indeed a “successful execution”.
“(Evans) was hit with an initial jolt of electricity, which lasted 30 seconds. Evans’ body tensed up, causing the electrode on his left leg to snap off. Soon smoke and flames were shooting out from under the hood that covered his head.
When two physicians entered the death chamber they found him still alive. Ignoring Evans’ lawyer’s plea, a third jolt of electricity was applied and he died. The execution took a total of 14 minutes and his body was left charred and smoldering.”
If you don’t tell the convict when the gas flow begins he won’t even hold his breath. He will just lose concisiousness and pass away peacefully.
Or as peacefully as someone who knows he is there to die can. After all he knows that he will soon meet his maker and be judged fo his sins.
I agree with you partly on execution in general and totally on using nitrogen.
My ONLY concern about application of the death penalty is the wide spread incompetence of “lawyers” in the courtroom, most particularly judges.
Stocks and/or gallows and gibbet.....fools)proof.
You’re showing way too much reason and logic for this thread.
FReepers I look a pictures of aborted babies daily. Tell me what is “Shocking” about this?
Then tell me why we can’t use a rope or firing squad any more? Let the inmate choose: rope or bullet.
Or bring the electric chair back. Cry me a river over this....I’m not interested in his pain.... only that of his victims family.
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