Posted on 10/05/2009 1:36:55 PM PDT by KingofZion
A federal appeals court Monday halted the execution of an inmate three weeks after problems with a lethal-injection attempt.
A panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled 2-1 to grant the request of 43-year-old Lawrence Reynolds Jr., who had been sentenced to die for strangling his 67-year-old neighbor during a 1994 robbery.
On Sept. 15, Gov. Ted Strickland stopped the lethal injection of Romell Broom after state executioners struggled for two hours to find a usable vein.
Mr. Broom's execution is on hold while his attorneys prepare for a Nov. 30 federal-court hearing. They argue that an unprecedented second execution attempt on Mr. Broom violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
*** Judge Jeffrey Sutton dissented, arguing that the state's policy addresses a scenario where repeated attempts to find a vein are unusable.
"Why assume an execution protocol is unconstitutional when one of the humane features of the protocol -- that the State will not continue trying to access a usable vein beyond a sensible time limit -- is being followed?" Judge Sutton wrote.
Mr. Strickland's decision to stop Mr. Broom's execution appears to be unprecedented since capital punishment was declared constitutional and the nation resumed executions in the 1970s. Inmates in several states have experienced delays with the injection of lethal chemicals, but those executions always proceeded the same day.
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Why is this so hard? States should just dispense with this injection nonsense and put a bullet in his head, which was certainly constitutional as far as the US constitutional framers were concerned.
What’s wrong with hanging?
I never understood the nonsense about there being some always painless way to kill someone.
Hang ‘em and be done with it.
What’s wrong with hanging?
I never understood the nonsense about there being some always painless way to kill someone.
Hang ‘em and be done with it.
I prefer hanging, and it is still constitutional too.
Apparently strangling works.
In the event the executioners can’t find a vein, maybe the family members of the victim could step up and use a baseball bat. Three or four really good whacks on the head will do the trick.
COnsidering what methods of execution were common place when the Constitution was written and signed, all this nonsense over the unconstitutionality of this type or that type of execution is B$. Framers didn’t have lethal injections or electric chairs. They simply hung you from a tree or a gallows if you were lucky or they just shot you.
I believe there are a couple of large, easily accessible veins in the neck ...
THANK you! I read the headline and said aloud, “Just SHOOT ‘im!” Or, if you prefer, a nice double-tap to the back of the head.
But, I guess that is messier to clean up than simply rolling the body out on a gurney.
.45 would work!
This is 2009 after all.
It seems to me that by now we would
have some way to hang, electrocute,
and gas them all at the same time.
Also, the administration of pure LSD
to the accused should proceed the practice,
with all the execution personnel wearing
life like silicon masks of the victim.
Have a nice trip.
Agreed.
A single bullet to the back of the head into the brain stem. Quick, merciful, Constitutional.
Quick, painless, certain, requires no poisonous chemicals, easy to clean up, doesn't disfigure the body ...
what's not to like?
hang them in a gas chamber with an electrified cable?
But will they halt a botched abortion?
Don’t they check these guys veins out before?
Note to self: Next time I find myself on death row about to be executed, refrain from drinking any water 24-48 hours prior.
Yup. Best method is lead poisoning. Quick, cheap and easy.
Redundant but it works for me.
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