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Controversial execution in Ohio uses new drug combination
cnn ^ | 1/16/14 | Dana Ford and Ashley Fantz

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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: execution
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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)


61 posted on 01/16/2014 3:04:22 PM PST by The Right wing Infidel
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To: 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.

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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.


62 posted on 01/16/2014 3:04:59 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: bestintxas

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.


63 posted on 01/16/2014 3:05:02 PM PST by lwd
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To: bestintxas

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.


64 posted on 01/16/2014 3:05:32 PM PST by DoughtyOne (ZERO is still zero, and John Kerry is a mock-puppet!)
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To: Red Badger

Why not just use pure LEAD


65 posted on 01/16/2014 3:07:35 PM PST by al baby (Hi MomÂ… I was refereeing to Obama)
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To: Harold Shea
This country has become a nation of limp-wristed fairies...

The method used for William Wallace would have worked just fine here.

66 posted on 01/16/2014 3:08:08 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: al baby

yeah i dont get that, whats so “inhuman” about a bullet to the head. I would rather be shot then have a lethal injection,


67 posted on 01/16/2014 3:10:04 PM PST by The Right wing Infidel
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To: rottndog

The last words and choking gasps might be too comical.


68 posted on 01/16/2014 3:12:15 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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To: SkyDancer

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


69 posted on 01/16/2014 3:13:41 PM PST by RWGinger
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To: bestintxas

For that guy they should have fired up Ole Sparky.


71 posted on 01/16/2014 3:21:03 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: bestintxas

72 posted on 01/16/2014 3:21:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: luvbach1
Actually, you're mistaken. I addressed your central objection, to wit, that this was a "long, agonizing death." It was nothing of the kind. He was dispatched quickly and we have no idea whether the spasms were painful or merely reflexive.

I believe the requirements of the law were satisfied, and your concerns about due process are nonsense.

73 posted on 01/16/2014 3:24:04 PM PST by FredZarguna (Das is nicht richtig nur falsch. Das ist nicht einmal falsch.)
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To: joe fonebone

And serve pizza at their bedside to the spectators, like Michael Schiavo did.


74 posted on 01/16/2014 3:25:15 PM PST by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
"I am sure he was completely out. The drugs relaxed the muscles of his airway, hence the snoring and gasping."

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.

75 posted on 01/16/2014 3:27:42 PM PST by boop (Liberal religion. No rules, just right!)
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To: SkyDancer

>>Media makes out the killer is the victim.<<

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Isn’t that usually the case with the liberal MSM?


76 posted on 01/16/2014 3:29:53 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: CharlotteVRWC

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.


77 posted on 01/16/2014 3:32:45 PM PST by Gefn (RIP Holly, April 1999-December 31, 2013 the best cat ever)
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To: Red Badger

Your post is funny, but then again, not. That reasoning wouldn’t actually surprise me any more.


78 posted on 01/16/2014 3:32:47 PM PST by Hardastarboard (The question of our age is whether a majority of Americans can and will vote us all into slavery.)
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To: bestintxas

Only ten minutes? Oh well, its a start.


79 posted on 01/16/2014 3:35:02 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: luvbach1

concern noted.


80 posted on 01/16/2014 3:36:36 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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