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Ohio killer's execution takes almost 25 minutes
Boston.com ^ | January 16, 2014 | ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS

Posted on 01/17/2014 5:58:49 AM PST by Freelance Warrior

A condemned man appeared to gasp several times and took an unusually long time to die — more than 20 minutes — in an execution carried out Thursday with a combination of drugs never before tried in the U.S.

McGuire, 53, made loud snorting noises during one of the longest executions since Ohio resumed capital punishment in 1999. Nearly 25 minutes passed between the time the lethal drugs began flowing and McGuire was pronounced dead at 10:53 a.m.

Executions under the old method were typically much shorter and did not cause the kind of sounds McGuire made.

Prison officials gave intravenous doses of two drugs, the sedative midazolam and the painkiller hydromorphone, to put McGuire to death for the 1989 rape and fatal stabbing of a pregnant newlywed, Joy Stewart.

The method was adopted after supplies of a previously used drug, the powerful sedative pentobarbital, dried up because the manufacturer declared it off limits for capital punishment.

The execution is certain to launch a new round of federal lawsuits over Ohio’s injection procedure. The state has five more executions scheduled this year, with the next one Feb. 19.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: mcguire
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To: ontap
His useless family has filed a lawsuit claiming Ohio knew he would suffer.....Shakespeare was right!!!!

Money doesn't stink.

21 posted on 01/17/2014 6:24:54 AM PST by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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To: Freelance Warrior

Either way works for me.

I have no problem with the condemned having to hang there for a while to contemplate their demise.

If done in public maybe some other poor soul will think twice about doing the same thing.


22 posted on 01/17/2014 6:26:13 AM PST by boilerfan (Hoosier born, Boilermaker educated!)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
You could ask Dick Hickock.

Do you mean that didn't work for him? That's the reason why the buckshot is better, it gives positive results repeatedly.

23 posted on 01/17/2014 6:29:51 AM PST by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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To: SecondAmendment
So what about the details about the brutal murder that landed that guy in the gurnee?

Check the 2-page article at the link.

24 posted on 01/17/2014 6:31:29 AM PST by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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To: Freelance Warrior
The execution is certain to launch a new round of federal lawsuits over Ohio’s injection procedure. The state has five more executions scheduled this year, with the next one Feb. 19.

Five more this year?

Simple.

Backup


25 posted on 01/17/2014 6:33:59 AM PST by USS Alaska (If I could...I would.)
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To: Freelance Warrior

The method was adopted after supplies of a previously used drug, the powerful sedative pentobarbital, dried up because the manufacturer declared it off limits for capital punishment.

The manufacturer should be informed failure to provide this drug for this purpose will have unacceptable consequence.

Firing squads are faster.


26 posted on 01/17/2014 6:37:27 AM PST by ZULU (Magua is sitting in the Oval Office. Ted Cruz/Phil Robertson in 2016.)
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To: USS Alaska
To mind the ammo is too expensive. Probably this one?

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27 posted on 01/17/2014 6:40:07 AM PST by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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To: Freelance Warrior; big'ol_freeper; shove_it; TrueKnightGalahad; Larry Lucido; Diplomat; ...
Get a rope... make it hemp so the libs get a 'Green Thingy' out of it and tell them it can be reused over and over again--

And if we ever get an honest majority in DC again... we may need another one or ten to clean house for good.

28 posted on 01/17/2014 6:41:12 AM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: ZULU
Firing squads are faster.

This is exacly my thought. And they're more humane I'd add.

29 posted on 01/17/2014 6:42:47 AM PST by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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To: skeeter

Right!

A much more appropriate concern is “how long did this jerk’s victim suffer”. That answer X 10 would be OK for the perp.

Then again it might have been cool for them to stop, wake the perp up and restart again the next day, just to give him time to think about it.


30 posted on 01/17/2014 6:43:44 AM PST by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: Freelance Warrior
The method needs to be the exact same method the perp used.
If it was a gun then lock him or her in a room and have a hole just big enough for a rifle barrel then tell them that sometime within 24 hours shots will be fired. Make em sweat. . . Eye for an Eye. . . . .
31 posted on 01/17/2014 6:49:52 AM PST by DeaconRed (GOD: Please send us one more Ronald Reagan. Soon. Thanks Deacon Red. PS It ain't Christie. . .)
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To: Freelance Warrior

Let’s focus on his crime.


32 posted on 01/17/2014 6:50:27 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Freelance Warrior

The Silent Killer

“Carbon monoxide (CO) is a gas that can kill you
quickly. It is called the “silent killer” because
it is colorless, odorless, tasteless and non-
irritating. If the early signs of CO poisoning are
ignored, a person may lose consciousness and
be unable to escape the danger. More people
die from carbon monoxide exposure than any
other kind of poisoning. “


33 posted on 01/17/2014 6:50:31 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: Freelance Warrior

Air tight room. Replace oxygen with inert gas, prisoner goes to sleep permanently. Body parts are reusable, if prisoner wants to donate.


34 posted on 01/17/2014 6:53:13 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: DeaconRed
The method needs to be the exact same method the perp used

I think this would require too much from prison personell. So many methods are to be administered.

35 posted on 01/17/2014 6:56:36 AM PST by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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To: FreeAtlanta
Body parts are reusable, if prisoner wants to donate.

I dunno, a heart which has fibrillated is unlikely to be worthy, IMHO. A brain torn to pieces with buckshot isn't worse: noone donates a brain while other organs are intact.

36 posted on 01/17/2014 7:01:00 AM PST by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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To: Freelance Warrior

So what?


37 posted on 01/17/2014 7:06:34 AM PST by onedoug
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To: onedoug

Shooting must be used.


38 posted on 01/17/2014 7:10:11 AM PST by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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To: Freelance Warrior

25 Minutes? This was 25 years to long to kill the sob.


39 posted on 01/17/2014 7:21:35 AM PST by zek157
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To: Freelance Warrior

How long did it take for the woman he murdered to die?


40 posted on 01/17/2014 7:25:00 AM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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