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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 ...


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To: Responsibility2nd
You are missing the source, context, and meaning of: "appeared to gasp and convulse." We have no reason to believe these movements were anything but reflexive, and also good reason to believe he was not even conscious at the time.

Fictional sadists are constructed by raving libtards like Stephen King to elicit sympathy for capital murderers, very few of whom are actually executed, and many -- if not most -- of whom survive longer than many of the jurors who convict them, and all of whom die far less terribly than their victims after decades of abusing due process and the false compassion of an increasingly silly polity.

The Green Mile is not a true story. The "sadisitc bastard prison guard" exists only in the twisted imagination of its author, where it should stay.

81 posted on 01/16/2014 3:37:54 PM PST by FredZarguna (Das is nicht richtig nur falsch. Das ist nicht einmal falsch.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Perhaps he suffered from sleep apnea.


82 posted on 01/16/2014 3:38:54 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: bestintxas

I believe the direct high speed injection of several ounces of lead metal to the head or heart would do the job. Convulsions would be minimal.


83 posted on 01/16/2014 3:39:18 PM PST by Right Wing Assault
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To: FredZarguna
I said "slow," agonizing death. And you, too, don't know the actual nature of his "spasms" as you admitted.
84 posted on 01/16/2014 3:39:58 PM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished)
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To: 353FMG
Perhaps he suffered from sleep apnea.

His family should receive a bill from his healthcare exchange in that case, as he is now cured.

85 posted on 01/16/2014 3:41:10 PM PST by FredZarguna (Das is nicht richtig nur falsch. Das ist nicht einmal falsch.)
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To: FredZarguna
The "sadisitc bastard prison guard" exists only in the twisted imagination of its author

Yeah, maybe. Don't forget, they are Purple People Beaters.

86 posted on 01/16/2014 3:42:02 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: bestintxas

87 posted on 01/16/2014 3:47:44 PM PST by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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To: luvbach1
I'm sorry I misquoted you -- for the simple reason that it gave you grounds, however flimsy -- for a rejoinder. In the context of ten minutes, neither "slow" nor "long" applies, and yours is a distinction without a difference intended to save face for you.

It does not.

The victim was sedated and given painkillers whose effects are well researched and established, and there is no reason other than silly concern trolling [to hide opposition to the death penalty] to believe he was conscious at the time of his death.

Your idiotic "point" was noted, hereby demolished, and now you are dismissed.

88 posted on 01/16/2014 3:48:22 PM PST by FredZarguna (Das is nicht richtig nur falsch. Das ist nicht einmal falsch.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

If I read in a Stephen King novel that the sky was blue, I’d stick my head out the window to be sure.


89 posted on 01/16/2014 3:52:07 PM PST by FredZarguna (Das is nicht richtig nur falsch. Das ist nicht einmal falsch.)
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To: rottndog
I saw a show about the Hemlock Society and suicide kits...a couple of helium bottles from a party store and a plastic bag for a hood. Less than $100 IIRC.
A couple of deep breaths in the hood brings unconsciousness within a minute. Death from asphyxiation within 10 minutes.

Why don't just use the drugs that the Dutch use for their supposedly humane doctor assisted "suicides"?

90 posted on 01/16/2014 3:52:22 PM PST by sharkhawk (Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.)
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To: bestintxas

Did it work?

If so, what’s the controversy?


91 posted on 01/16/2014 3:54:05 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: alstewartfan
perhaps that this demon did not suffer *enough*. I always feel badly for the family of the perp, but he deserved death

When he was convicted and given the death sentence, they should have turned him over to the family of the victim.

92 posted on 01/16/2014 3:54:47 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Good grief! What’s the big deal? Just give them the same stuff that they use to humanely put dogs down with! One shot and the dog goes to sleep and stops breathing, another shot and the dog’s heart stops beating.

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Yes, for those who are concerned about any "pain" that a murderer experiences during execution, this would seem to be an alternative.

93 posted on 01/16/2014 3:55:03 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: bestintxas

I prefer the “Scott Evil” approach.

Just shoot him.....BANG.....DEAD.....DONE.


94 posted on 01/16/2014 3:55:27 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: bestintxas
Why is it inhumane to give a lethal injection to a GD criminal but an act of mercy for a vet to do the same to an animal or a Dr. Kevorkian to do the same to a terminally ill person?

Maybe lethal injections to criminals should be done by a vet so the death penalty would be reported as, "It was the right thing to do."

95 posted on 01/16/2014 3:58:37 PM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: bestintxas
McGuire's "children and daughter-in-law were crying and visibly upset,"

If he has been in prison for over 20 years then how old are these "children??"

96 posted on 01/16/2014 4:00:46 PM PST by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: TheBattman

In Goliad Texas, the side lawn of the courthouse has an old stately oak tree, named “The Hanging Tree.”

The perp was sentenced, went out the side door, five minutes later he was swinging.

No meal costs, no prison, no guards. This was before this country became wussified to the point that this scumbag hung around for twenty years living for free at our expense!


97 posted on 01/16/2014 4:02:35 PM PST by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: FredZarguna
Agreed. King is a liberal.

King's website states that he is a supporter of the Democratic Party. During the 2008 presidential election, King voiced his support for Democratic candidate Barack Obama. King was quoted as calling conservative commentator Glenn Beck "Satan's mentally challenged younger brother." On March 8, 2011, King spoke at a political rally in Sarasota aimed against Governor Rick Scott (R-FL), voicing his opposition to the Tea Party movement.

In November 2011, King donated $70,000 in matched funding via his radio station to help pay the heating bills for families in need in his home town of Bangor, Maine, during the winter.

On April 30, 2012, King published an article in The Daily Beast calling for rich Americans, including himself, to pay more taxes, citing it as "a practical necessity and moral imperative that those who have received much should be obligated to pay ... in the same proportion".

On January 25, 2013, King published an essay titled "Guns" via Amazon.com's Kindle single feature, which discusses the gun debate in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. King called for gun owners to support a ban on automatic and semi-automatic weapons, writing, "Autos and semi-autos are weapons of mass destruction...When lunatics want to make war on the unarmed and unprepared, these are the weapons they use." The essay became the fifth-bestselling non-fiction title for the Kindle.

Source: Wikipedia

98 posted on 01/16/2014 4:03:37 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: bestintxas

The perp was to “suffocate to death in agony and terror.”

&&&

And the problem — aside from the fact that this animal has been allowed to live all these years — is....?


99 posted on 01/16/2014 4:16:23 PM PST by Bigg Red (O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Ps 8)
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To: rottndog

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bag]

The “Exit Bag” was described as a large plastic bag with an adjustable velcro strip around the neck area.[8] Different models of the “Exit Bag” were described in Hemlock publications, and the use of helium was specified.[8] Dr. Philip Nitschke has stated that nitrogen has a lower risk of an adverse reaction by the body, but did not specify with regard to what other gas. Nitrogen has been advocated as a replacement for helium not because of reactions to helium, but because, due to a “temporary restriction on the availability of disposable helium in Australia (and New Zealand), helium has been difficult to procure.”[

Cases using suicide bags and gases other than noble gases are recorded, such as a propane-butane mixture,[25] and methane (natural gas).[26]


100 posted on 01/16/2014 4:16:49 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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