Posted on 01/25/2014 6:51:51 AM PST by KeyLargo
Family alleges Ohio execution unconstitutional January 25, 2014
AP
COLUMBUS, Ohio The prolonged execution of an Ohio inmate during which he repeatedly gasped and snorted amounted to cruel and unusual punishment which should not be allowed to happen again, the inmate's family said in a federal lawsuit.
The lawsuit, filed late Friday, also alleges the drug maker that produced the medications illegally allowed them to be used for an execution and should be prohibited from making them available for capital punishment.
McGuire "repeated cycles of snorting, gurgling and arching his back, appearing to writhe in pain," the lawsuit said. "It looked and sounded as though he was suffocating."
McGuire's execution lasted 26 minutes, the longest since the state resumed putting inmates to death in 1999, according to an Associated Press analysis of all 53 execution logs maintained by the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
It remains unclear what McGuire experienced. The AP observed him appearing to fall unconscious and remaining so while he snorted, gasped and opened and shut his mouth repeatedly.
McGuire's execution, during which his adult children sobbed in dismay, has led to several calls for a moratorium on capital punishment in the state.
In addition, a separate federal lawsuit filed Thursday seeks to stop the March execution of a northeast Ohio killer on the grounds that condemned inmates could be clinically alive for as long as 45 minutes after a time of death is announced in the state death chamber.
Attorneys for Gregory Lott, who is scheduled to die March 19 for setting an East Cleveland man on fire in 1986 and leaving him to die, also say Ohio is breaking state and federal law by using the drugs without a prescription.
The lawsuit by McGuire's family targets Lake Forest, Ill.-based Hospira Inc.,
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Of course there is...they're dead aren't they? That's cruel because they were killed, and unusual because they were alive...now they're dead.
After pronouncing the death sentence, simply release them into natural law. Let the friends and family members get things right.
Read complete description of the murder here:
Scroll down to fourth narrative on the webpage.
http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/pending/99/apr99.html
Too much sympathy for the murderer and not enough for the victim.
I am with you there. That is how little compassion I have for this man removal from society. He was vicious in murdering the woman. Maybe there ought to be a rude protest in front of Little Lord Fauntleroy’s house.
Easy solution. Give Dennis 24 hours to respond. If we hear nothing from him then let’s just move on.
The left LOVES when animal shelters put down strays.
Why doesn’t the state just use the same chemicals that the left approves of for that?
Dragging would be appropriate.
This is from the despicable Asspress. In the seventies liberal courts released murderers of all kinds and refused to punish violent offenders.
The libs have always loved brutal murderers while looking down from way up in their ivory towers, because these human beasts kill a lot of people who disagree with liberals, and they also help with population control. The libs are insulated from them of course.
“repeated cycles of snorting, gurgling and arching his back, appearing to writhe in pain,”
As TUCO said...”You can feel the devil bite your a$$!”
Yes, a lethal injection of lead into the brain is ideal.
On the medical angle, I can't figure out why they can't just take these guys to a vet. I took a friend's pet to get put down. They gave it a shot and 10 seconds later the thing was gone. It never even twitched.
What's all the fuss with humans?
By the time his body reacted to the overdose of meds, he was already brain dead. His flesh wasn’t rotten yet, but his mind and spirit were.
Honestly...don’t belive the news report. Run a google search..or any other internet search engine for that matter, and look up the drugs used, the time it takes to get them into the system, and how they act.
What he experienced was all normal.
The truth of the matter is, most people have never seen death in real life, but only on movies so their perceptions are based on false information.
The man didn’t suffer, unfortunately.
Warm up Old Sparky and fry the maggot.
The use of drugs contaminates the lungs,heart,kidneys,and liver making it impossible to transplant.
Britains Last Hangman
“Hanging remains the quickest and most efficient method.The perpetrator can donate their body parts and at least make some recompense fo their crimes.
The use of drugs contaminates the lungs,heart,kidneys,and liver making it impossible to transplant.”
Yes, but who would want organs from a killer anyway?
Might be bad ju ju.
Anyway I would recommend organ removal from killers prior to execution to remedy that. :)
Supreme Court sets execution date for Michael Taylor
January 24, 2014 By Mike Lear
The state Supreme Court has set an execution date for Michael Taylor, one of two men who pleaded guilty to the 1989 murder of a 15-year-old girl. The Court has ordered that he be executed February 26.
Taylor and Roderick Nunley both admitted to abducting Ann Harrison from the Kansas City bus stop where she was waiting to go to school. Taylor had raped the girl with Nunleys help in the basement of Nunleys mothers home before fatally stabbing her and abandoning her body in the trunk of a car.
Taylor turns 47 January 30.
http://www.missourinet.com/2014/01/24/supreme-court-sets-execution-date-for-michael-taylor/
Lawyer urged inmate to fake suffocation during execution, Ohio prison guards say
Published January 28, 2014
| Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio An attorney for a condemned Ohio inmate whose slow, gasping execution with a new drug combination renewed questions about the death penalty was temporarily suspended last week while officials investigated whether he had coached the condemned man to fake symptoms of suffocation.
The Office of the Public Defender said Robert Lowe, one of the attorneys representing inmate Dennis McGuire, was back at work Monday after an internal review failed to substantiate the allegation.
State prison records released Monday say McGuire told guards that Lowe counseled him to make a show of his death that would, perhaps, lead to abolition of the death penalty. But three accounts from prison officials indicate McGuire refused to put on a display
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