Texas executes first inmate using drug used on animals

reuters ^ | May 3, 2011 | Corrie MacLaggan

[PROCON]

(Reuters) - Texas on Tuesday carried out its first execution using a sedative often used to euthanize animals.

Cary Kerr, 46, was put to death by lethal injection for the 2001 sexual assault and strangling of Pamela Horton.

The new drug, pentobarbital, replaced sodium thiopental in Texas' three-drug execution protocol.

[PROCON]

using a sedative often used to euthanize animals.

Works for me....

[Celtic Cross]

If the boot fits.

[cripplecreek]

No complaints from Mr Kerr.

[AU72]

Slow strangulation by piano wire would have been better.

[9422WMR]

Did he bark?/S

[Farmer Dean]

I don’t have a problem with it,he’s dead.

[bgill]

About 10 years late.

[tet68]

Pretty slow acting stuff, it only took ten years to work.

Say! Maybe that’s the ticket, found guilty, injected
immediately and several years later they drop dead.
Gives them time to think about it.

[laweeks]

using a sedative often used to euthanize animals.

using a sedative often used to euthanize KILL AN animal. Too bad it took 10 years to kill this animal.

[davetex]

yep, 10 years too late.

[doggieboy]

Sounds like poetic justice.

[hinckley buzzard]

Pentobarbital is the prescription drug Nembutal, once widely used as a sleeping pill and affectionately known as "yellow jackets" by abusers. First formulated in 1928 for human use. Neither new nor an "animal drug." While it is used on animals, so is aspirin. Big whup.

[ConorMacNessa]

My position on the question of Capital Punishment has changed over the years. In the last several years, I have come to the conclusion that even life with no chance or parole is insufficient. I think capital criminals should be dispatched as a specific deterrent - which is 100% effective. I think they should also be dispatched as a general deterrent - many who would otherwise commit capital crimes will be deterred by the threat of death - if that threat is real and imminent. Needless to say, the decades long appeals process has to be curtailed as well. The families of the victims deserve timely closure. As it is now many of them will be gone before the eventual execution of the criminal, if it ever occurs.

Justice delayed, as they say, is justice denied.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[txroadkill]

Works for me....

Seems to have worked for him too!

[BobL]

Let’s see. It’s a drug for animals...and they’re using it on animals. Why is this news?

[oyez]

A 30-06 round through the brain stem would be painless.

[Free Vulcan]

In Texas we have the death penalty, and we - USE IT!

[Broker]

Hee Haw!

[Broker]

Hee Haw!

[Joe 6-pack]

I’ve long held that capital punishment should be on the table for any crime in which the victim would have been justified using deadly force in self-defense. Of course if you eliminate that relatively small population of repeat violent offenders, too many lawyers would lose their livelihoods.