Posted on 12/08/2009 11:00:28 AM PST by Ben Mugged
Ohio prison officials executed a death row inmate, Kenneth Biros, Tuesday with a one-drug intravenous lethal injection, a method never before used on a human.
The new method, which involved a large dose of anesthetic, akin to how animals are euthanized, has been hailed by most experts as painless and an improvement over the three-drug cocktail used in most states, but it is unlikely to settle the debate over the death penalty.
While praising the shift to a single drug, death penalty opponents argue that Ohio’s new method, and specifically its backup plan of using intra-muscular injection, has not been properly vetted by legal and medical experts and that since it has never been tried out on humans before, it is the equivalent of human experimentation.
But the United States Supreme Court refused to intervene on Tuesday morning, and the procedure went largely as planned. ~snip~
Mr. Biros was convicted of sexually assaulting and killing Tami Engstrom, 22, near Warren, in northeastern Ohio, in 1991 after offering to drive her home from a bar, then scattering her body parts in Ohio and Pennsylvania. She had been stabbed more than 90 times. Mr. Biros acknowledged killing her but said it was done during a drunken rage.
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This piece of human garbage has been living and breathing for the past 18 years, while his 22 year old victim could have been a 40 year old mother.
Where are all the lefty's worrying over her rights?
Let's get back to public hangings.
Put them on pay per view, and we could pay off the National debt.
WTF. Just shoot the bast*rd in the head with a .500 S&W and be done with it already!!
And if you're worried about the cruelty of it, shoot him while he's asleep.
Was Mike Farrell there to protest?
Put them on pay per view...How about hangings from the goal posts at halftime of the Super Bowl and college bowl games? That would be more watchable than the crap they put on now.
Why not just use CO2 (as in CO2 gas chambers)? I hear there’s too much of the stuff around anyway.
what the heck is wrong with hanging? the supreme court has already ruled that hanging is ok with the constitution.
Well, he’s dead so I guess it worked. Next?
Why can’t we just go back to firing squads or public hangings? Seriously!
Goal posts ... it would be the only time Brown’s fans would ever see what goal posts look like.
Mr. Biros was convicted of sexually assaulting and killing Tami Engstrom, 22, near Warren, in northeastern Ohio, in 1991 after offering to drive her home from a bar, then scattering her body parts in Ohio and Pennsylvania. She had been stabbed more than 90 times. Mr. Biros acknowledged killing her
Cruelty? CRUELTY? Dirtbag biros didn’t worry about hte CRUELTY he inflicted, nor in how long it took. CRUELTY is the last damn thing I would worry about.
18 years the tax payer has paid this jerks way. All I care is to get the job done at the least expense. Cruelty .. stick Pelosi in a cell with him 24 hours before sentence .. he will be begng to get it over with
I don’t care if the “new” way is to skin them alive then dip them in salt. As long as it also contains an absolute guarantee any recipient is guilty.
How about CO. Seems to be a pretty sure way. Vent it thru the roof when done. No muss, no fuss.
Was Mike Farrell there to protest?
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Not hip enough for the actor-moron class.
Only cool to protest the execution of the downtrodden black man in LaLa, not some white guy in flyover country.
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