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Texas executes first inmate using drug used on animals
reuters ^
| May 3, 2011
| Corrie MacLaggan
Posted on 05/03/2011 5:54:50 PM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: carykerr; deathpenalty; dielikeadog; lethalinjection; pentobarbital; sodiumthiopental; texas
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using a sedative often used to euthanize animals. Works for me....
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posted on
05/03/2011 5:54:57 PM PDT
by
PROCON
To: PROCON
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posted on
05/03/2011 5:56:11 PM PDT
by
Celtic Cross
(Some minds are like cement; thoroughly mixed up and permanently set...)
To: PROCON
No complaints from Mr Kerr.
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posted on
05/03/2011 5:56:13 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: PROCON
Slow strangulation by piano wire would have been better.
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posted on
05/03/2011 5:56:29 PM PDT
by
AU72
To: PROCON
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posted on
05/03/2011 5:56:37 PM PDT
by
9422WMR
(Illegal is not a race. Obamacare is a crime)
To: PROCON
I don’t have a problem with it,he’s dead.
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posted on
05/03/2011 5:56:48 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: PROCON
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posted on
05/03/2011 5:57:16 PM PDT
by
bgill
(Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
To: PROCON
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.
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posted on
05/03/2011 5:58:46 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: PROCON
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.
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posted on
05/03/2011 5:59:06 PM PDT
by
laweeks
To: bgill
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posted on
05/03/2011 6:00:43 PM PDT
by
davetex
(All my weapons got melted by a meteor!! No Sh*t)
To: PROCON
Sounds like poetic justice.
To: PROCON
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.
To: PROCON
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!
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posted on
05/03/2011 6:15:25 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
To: PROCON
Works for me.... Seems to have worked for him too!
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posted on
05/03/2011 6:18:29 PM PDT
by
txroadkill
( We're sooooooo screwed!)
To: PROCON
Let’s see. It’s a drug for animals...and they’re using it on animals. Why is this news?
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posted on
05/03/2011 6:25:22 PM PDT
by
BobL
(PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts))
To: PROCON
A 30-06 round through the brain stem would be painless.
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posted on
05/03/2011 6:27:25 PM PDT
by
oyez
(The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
To: PROCON
In Texas we have the death penalty, and we - USE IT!
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posted on
05/03/2011 6:30:05 PM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
To: 9422WMR
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posted on
05/03/2011 6:31:21 PM PDT
by
Broker
(Mabuhay!)
To: 9422WMR
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posted on
05/03/2011 6:31:31 PM PDT
by
Broker
(Mabuhay!)
To: ConorMacNessa
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.
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posted on
05/03/2011 6:33:40 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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