Posted on 01/16/2014 2:07:58 PM PST by bestintxas
Ohio inmate Dennis McGuire appeared to gasp and convulse for roughly 10 minutes before he finally died Thursday during his execution by lethal injection using a new combination of drugs, reporters who witnessed it said.
He was convicted in 1994 of the rape and murder of 22-year-old Joy Stewart, who was seven months pregnant. Her relatives were at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville to witness his death, according to tweets from television reporter Sheila Gray.
McGuire's "children and daughter-in-law were crying and visibly upset," Gray tweeted.
Killer executed in Ohio A Dayton Daily News reporter who also watched the execution said that before the drugs took effect, McGuire thanked Stewart's family for a letter he apparently got. "I'm sorry," McGuire reportedly said.
The convicted murderer was pronounced dead at 10:53 a.m. ET,
The execution generated controversy because, like many states, Ohio has been forced to find new drug protocols after European-based manufacturers banned U.S. prisons from using their drugs in executions -- among them, Danish-based Lundbeck, which manufactures pentobarbital.
The state used a combination of the drugs midazolam, a sedative; and the painkiller hydromorphone, the state corrections department told CNN.
In an opinion piece written for CNN earlier this week, a law professor noted that McGuire's attorneys argued he would "suffocate to death in agony and terror."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
They could try using a 25’ length of rope around the neck and dropping the condemned from 35’ up. It would be pretty quick, if that’s the issue.
I am sure he was completely out. The drugs relaxed the muscles of his airway, hence the snoring and gasping.
Helium is vastly more expensive than nitrogen, and is in somewhat short supply.
It would make their last words more fun
In an opinion piece written for CNN earlier this week, a law professor noted that McGuire’s attorneys argued he would “suffocate to death in agony and terror.
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And this is a bad thing?
Not that I sympathize with the worthless POS who was executed, but 10 minutes of convulsions? What they heck are they doing?
My veterinarian has a drug mixture he can inject into a 175 lb dog, which kills it in about 30 seconds with no convulsions, no spasms, no gasping for breath, no nothing except eyes closing, breathing and heartbeat slowing to a stop.
GMTA
I worked with placing N, on underground telephone cables and we all had to learn it’s dangers. “Never to be opened in enclosed areas”.
. . . if only we had a strategic federal reserve . . .
That’s wicked, but funny.
They probably don’t use it because they don’t want him to get addicted......................
No controversy here, except perhaps that this demon did not suffer *enough*. I always feel badly for the family of the perp, but he deserved death, period.
We have had a spate of killings in NE Pa recently, and if I had my way, all the murderers would be dead before spring. Bob
We had one ... not sure how much is left, but the price has really jumped in the last 10 years.
No their supply has been cut. Read why:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/15/justice/states-lethal-injection-drugs/index.html
Sounds like a market has just opened up in the U.S.
Stingy Europe. They want to hog all their killin' drugs for grannies and sick children.
He forgot to carry his angel coin. Oh well, next time..... Bob
We could use about ten of these at the white house
“An even simpler method....straight helium.”
Expensive, and wasteful. Lead poisoning seemed to work fairly well for hundreds of years...what happened?
“McGuire’s children and daughter-in-law were crying and visibly upset”
So what? “The family of the brutally raped and murdered woman cried and were visibly upset when they found out about the death of Ms Stewart.”
This is such a fake controversy. give the guy 20-30- heck give him 100 mg of ativan IV, followed by 4-500 mg of succinyl choline, 500meq of KCl, stick a tag on his toe, toss him in a bag and throw him in a hole. The walk away.
He’s a murdering POS and his family should be told that the state is getting rid of this cock roach and you’d be best to forget he ever existed.
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