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Inmate protests execution drugs as worse than a firing squad [Ricky Gray, VA]
Associated Press ^ | Dec 14, 2016 5:34 PM EST | Alanna Durkin Richer

Posted on 12/14/2016 5:08:12 PM PST by Olog-hai

A Virginia inmate asked a federal court Wednesday to block the state’s plans to execute him next month with lethal injection drugs from a secret compounding pharmacy, suggesting even a firing squad would be more humane.

Attorneys for Ricky Gray said in a federal complaint that there is a serious risk that Virginia will “chemically torture” the man to death when it uses compounded drugs for his execution scheduled for Jan. 18. Although firing squads aren’t permitted under Virginia law, his attorneys argue even that method would be a more humane alternative. […]

Gray’s attorneys plan to ask Gov. Terry McAuliffe to commute his sentence to life in prison, arguing that jurors did not hear enough evidence about Gray’s history as a sexual abuse victim and resulting drug use before they chose to sentence him to death, The Virginian-Pilot reported this week. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: babykiller; deathpenalty; firingsquad; gray; lethalinjection; mcauliffe; rickygray
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To: Olog-hai

id amend the law and grant him that firing squad.


41 posted on 12/14/2016 5:50:38 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

but in my firing squad every gun has a live round. that bastard is not going to have any chance of living.


42 posted on 12/14/2016 5:52:42 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Olog-hai

Probably should be executed the same way he killed his victims if he declines the chemical choice.


43 posted on 12/14/2016 5:55:08 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Dan Rather, a 60 Minutes Investigative Reporter for CBS, invented "Fake News"-fake but accurate.)
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To: PapaBear3625

What efforts did the perp take to make sure that the mother, father, and two young daughters were dead (from repeated beatings) before setting their house ablaze?


44 posted on 12/14/2016 6:03:28 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: Popman

The companies that make euthanasia drugs for hospitals around the world refuse to sell them for executions.

How crooked.

Not all of those hospital deaths are made in sound mind or with full consent (the insurance company will pay for the death shot but not the treatment for your cancer).


45 posted on 12/14/2016 6:05:50 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: Olog-hai

The constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, it does not guarantee a completely execution.


46 posted on 12/14/2016 6:09:43 PM PST by umgud (ban all infidelaphobics)
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To: Olog-hai

Fine, cancel the lethal injection and send him into the wood chipper instead. Feet first.


47 posted on 12/14/2016 6:12:28 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Olog-hai

Bring back hanging.


48 posted on 12/14/2016 6:12:41 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Olog-hai

Let him have his way, just put a bullet in his brain and be done with it.


49 posted on 12/14/2016 6:20:40 PM PST by redfreedom
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To: Olog-hai
Nitrogen Asphyxiation
50 posted on 12/14/2016 6:38:37 PM PST by taxcontrol
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To: Olog-hai

I say...hang um high!


51 posted on 12/14/2016 6:39:28 PM PST by Osage Orange (Cover up after cover up...OUR GOVERNMENT is OUT OF CONTROL)
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To: Olog-hai
I agree. When the State kills a person via execution, the act should be overtly violent.

I truly despise the idea of executions performed by "medical" personnel. It's simply too clinical and impersonal.

Executing someone is a violent act, and the State should always be reminded that that is exactly what is happening. Such an act should never be divorced from its violent nature...

52 posted on 12/14/2016 6:45:50 PM PST by sargon (The Revolution is ON! Support President-elect Trump!)
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To: Olog-hai

offer the inmate the same sedative that he/she offered their victim....


53 posted on 12/14/2016 6:54:20 PM PST by terycarl
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To: Olog-hai

drop him out of an airplane, over the ocean, from about 30,000 feet....bye-bye.


54 posted on 12/14/2016 6:57:54 PM PST by terycarl
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To: Mr. Rabbit

I oppose public executions....just not a good idea.

This idea that an execution should be painless is crazy talk. It should not be painful for the expressed purpose of inflicting pain. The expressed purpose is their death, if they experience a little pain in accomplishing that, oh well. Obviously no concern for his victims and what they suffered at his hands.

This POS got more life after the murders than two of his victims lived. He should have been executed the day after he was sentenced to death. The wages of sin is death.


55 posted on 12/14/2016 7:01:47 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Olog-hai

Well, ... I suppose there are always the Executional Hanging and various Guilotinic methods if those drugs and Firing Squad methods don’t work out.


56 posted on 12/14/2016 7:41:18 PM PST by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: Olog-hai

What BS, just OD them on Morphine. Or the same assisted suicide drugs they are trying to use on chronically ill patients, they have brainwashed into thinking it’s a way out.


57 posted on 12/14/2016 7:57:53 PM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: Merry CHRISTmas, Happy Birthday JESUS CHRIST, suck it up buttercup you lost)
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To: Olog-hai

So shoot him.


58 posted on 12/14/2016 8:46:40 PM PST by arthurus (Mrs Clinton is The Great ConPutin, himself, did it from his veryniver.)
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To: Olog-hai

So shoot him.


59 posted on 12/14/2016 8:46:45 PM PST by arthurus (Mrs Clinton is The Great ConPutin, himself, did it from his veryniver.)
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To: Olog-hai
The fact that this is even an issue any more is a sign that no one wants the "controversy" around the death penalty to end. It provides talking points to both sides, so neither want to have anything to do with actually doing anything to solve the problem. The solution is so simple even a politician should understand it. You have an air-tight room. Put the prisoner in it. Pump it full of nitrogen. After 30 minutes you cycle normal air in and take the body to the morgue. The person being executed won't even notice that he died, because nitrogen doesn't trigger any response in your body that you're in imminent threat of death. 80% of our atmosphere is nitrogen. It is not a toxic substance, and is easy to distill and compress into cylinders for use.

The fact that it's not commonly used for execution is proof that both democrats and republicans are playing the public on the issue.

60 posted on 12/15/2016 7:13:53 AM PST by zeugma (I'm going to get fat from all this schadenfreude)
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