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 ...
bleh he should have been injected with something far more painful like a lethal dose of amphetamine (feeling your heart burst is not a comfy way to die)
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.
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What was the name of that sadistic bastard prison guard in “The Green MIle” who deliberately failed to water down that inmate prior to execution? The convict sparked, smoked, burned awhile and finally after awhile died.
Seems like his legacy lives on.
Ohio and other states are having to try new methods because the anti-capital punishment leftists persuaded Hospira to stop making sodium thiopental, one of the common lethal injection drugs.
This just in.
No persons who are not convicted of terrible murders will be forced to endure this new procedure.
Relatives of these non-convicted persons can rest easy.
Why not just use pure LEAD
The method used for William Wallace would have worked just fine here.
yeah i dont get that, whats so “inhuman” about a bullet to the head. I would rather be shot then have a lethal injection,
The last words and choking gasps might be too comical.
This is what p””ses me off
“. Media makes out the killer is the victim”
gee let me think if I care he convulsed for 10 min
UH NO don’t care
how low did his victim suffer
For that guy they should have fired up Ole Sparky.
I believe the requirements of the law were satisfied, and your concerns about due process are nonsense.
And serve pizza at their bedside to the spectators, like Michael Schiavo did.
Exactly. He was give n a large dose benzodiazepine to get him to sleep, then a slug of hydromorphone to prevent pain. He didn't "feel" a thing. Guaranteed.
Here's a news flash, about everyone "gasps" before dying. It's called agonal breathing.
This guy was very "humanely" put down.
Probably way more so than the vet described above for dogs.
>>Media makes out the killer is the victim.<<
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Isn’t that usually the case with the liberal MSM?
My beloved cat had to be helped to the Rainbow Bridge two weeks ago. I had her in my arms reciting the Lords Prayer and she was gone before I finshed the first line.
I’m grateful the vet said she had no pain, I was weeping so hard I couldn’t see clearly.
I hope when my time comes I would die that painlessly and quickly, hopefully in my bed asleep.
Your post is funny, but then again, not. That reasoning wouldn’t actually surprise me any more.
Only ten minutes? Oh well, its a start.
concern noted.
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