Posted on 04/15/2010 12:25:17 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
An Ohio death row inmate is attempting to postpone his imminent appointment with the lethal injection gurney by claiming a possible allergy to the anaesthetic used by the state to dispatch its condemned prisoners.
Darryl DurrDarryl Durr (pictured) is sentenced to die next Tuesday for the 1988 rape and murder of 16-year-old Angel Vincent. He faces a single injection of thiopental sodium, rather than the traditional three-chemical cocktail used for such executions. Ohio last year became the first state to switch to the one-hit lethal anaesthesia method.
His lawyers, however, say that they've found evidence of Durr's allergy in his 800-page prison medical records. If correct, this compromises Ohio's commitment to suffering-free capital punishment.
Defense attorney Kathleen McGarry said: "One of the things the Ohio Constitution guarantees is that he has a quick and painless execution.
"If he's going to react to the anesthetic drugs in such a manner that he's going to have a violent reaction, either vomiting or seizures or whatever the spectrum is that could happen, then obviously the execution has problems."
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
He wouldn’t be allergic to a firing squad, would he?
Well, then just stick one behind his ear.....
800 page medical records? Is that normal?
I am allergic to taxes. Do I get special dispensation?
This is serious his allergy to lethal injection might just KILL HIM!!! ;-)
He shoulda thought about this before shirking his commitment to suffering-free death for 16-year-old Angel Vincent...
Ya think? LOL
My thoughts exactly
"Don't worry, fool. You'll be too dead to notice."
i have heard that lead poisening can be a killer....
Sounds like it’s time to crank up Sparkey
800 page medical records? Is that normal?”
seriously...what did THAT cost us?
What next? Wrong thread count on the gurney sheets?
Then hang the son of a bitch.
Try it first ... I wonder if the rape and murder was painless for his victim ....
Well, don't use an anaesthetic.
Only if you're willing to accept a firing squad as the alternative.
Well the minute after he’s injected, they ought to drag him off to an allergy doctor! Or do a post-mortem on him and verify whether he did in fact have an allergy.
Problem solved!
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