His crime? Article notes "He was convicted in 1994 of the rape and murder of 22-year-old Joy Stewart, who was seven months pregnant. Her throat was cut and she had been sodomized."
This happened 5 years before he was convicted, so a total of 24 years he has not had to pay for his sins.
All who feel sorry for this poor guy's death of agony please feel free to contribute response.
I’m good.
Weird family to show up at his execution. No mention of how the victim’s family felt. Media makes out the killer is the victim.
I don't feel sorry for him nor do I doubt he deserved what he got. But the sentence was death, not slow and agonizing death. The sentence as proscribed by law is what should be carried out or the sentence should be changed.I also agree that the 24-year delay in carrying out the sentence also should not have happened.
Nitrogen Asphyxiation - 99% nitrogen gas at 1.1 atmospheres through a breathing mask until the brain waves are flat.
Nitrogen is all natural
Causes rapid unconsciousness
No toxic chemicals
No pain
No fuss
No mess
Why not just use pure heroin?.......................
Why don’t they just use heroin/morphine?
The guy was a rapist, sodomite, and murderer of a woman and her unborn child. How do we know this criminal wasn't acting out gasping and convulsing? Of course, if he wasn't faking it, consider it icing on the capital punishment cake.
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.
He’s dead isn’t he?
Mission accomplshed
The constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. It does not guarantee a painless execution.
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.
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
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.
“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.
I am trying to find some compassion. Cannot do it. For his victim, yes.
As opposed to a trip through a wood chipper.