Ohio can't find doctors to offer execution advice

Breitbart ^ | 10/26/2009 | ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS

[Responsibility2nd]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio was on track this year to execute a record number of inmates. One botched execution and several lawsuits later, the death penalty is temporarily on hold there.

The latest challenge: The state can't find medical professionals willing to advise it on the best way to put condemned inmates to death because of ethical and professional rules.

The rules—which generally prohibit doctors, nurses and others from involvement in capital punishment—are deterring those professionals from speaking publicly or privately about alternatives to the state's lethal injection process, Attorney General Richard Cordray said in a court filing.

"A small number of promising leads have emerged, but identifying qualified medical personnel willing and able to provide advice to the State regarding lethal injection options continues to be challenging and time-consuming," Cordray said in the Friday filing in U.S. District Court.

Executions have stopped while the state develops new injection policies following a Sept. 15 execution that was halted because the inmate had no suitable veins.

[Responsibility2nd]

Incomptency. I wonder if do-gooder libs wrote into law these requirements.

[Oldexpat]

They need to call their local Planned Parenthood office. They know some Drs who specialize in killing people.

[Responsibility2nd]

 

From last month.....

 

Lawyer: Ohio execution on hold after vein troubles

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 2:43:18 PM · by Responsibility2nd · 64 replies · 1,302+ views

Assoc. Press ^ | 09/15/2009

LUCASVILLE, Ohio – A lawyer for a condemned inmate in the state death chamber says execution team members have taken a break after struggling to access the inmate's veins. Attorney Tim Sweeney says the team is having trouble inserting IVs into the arms of 53-year-old Romell Broom. Broom is sentenced to die for raping and killing 14-year-old Tryna Middleton in Cleveland in 1984. It was the second delay of the Tuesday execution, originally scheduled for 10 a.m. Broom entered the death chamber shortly before 2 p.m. after losing a last-minute appeal request. In 2005, an execution was delayed for more...

[CholeraJoe]

If he's got a pulse, you can access the circulatory system.

[MrDem]

With all the professional murders that have “on the payroll” in these prisons there is a lack of expertise?

[Krodg]

Get a Muslim doctor. They know how to get the job done, they practice on their own families.

[TChris]

One botched execution and several lawsuits later, the death penalty is temporarily on hold there.

That's been the goal all along.

Liberal lawyers win again.

[Ben Mugged]

Someone give’em my phone number. I’ll tell’em how to do it.....

[ArrogantBustard]

This is utterly ridiculous.

Put the bastards in a 100% N2 environment for an hour.

They'll be dead.

[loungitude]

I hear that second hand smoke will do the job.

[MGBGUN]

I liked this discussion on the death penalty.
LIBERAL: So, you believe in the electric chair?
CONSERVATIVE: Heck no, I believe in electric bleachers!

[goat granny]

any vet could do it...they never miss a vein on a cat or dog. Gets in the first try........without even seeing a vein...

[Drew68]

The French got it right more than 200 years ago.

Quick.

Painless.

100% effective.

And...

...no physician required.

[applpie]

check with doc zeke. maybe he can create a special death panel.

[Chet 99]

One botched execution and several lawsuits later,

Hard to botch an execution using this method.

[Republic of Texas]

Try the jugular vein. That one is hard to miss.

[traditional1]

How about lead poisoning them?

[charles1252]

Calling Dr Kevorkian

[Navy Patriot]

I wonder if do-gooder libs wrote into law these requirements.

Affirmative, with the specific intent of preventing all executions by maximizing red tape requirements, and increasing cost as much as possible.

Oh yeah, and they're NOT "do-gooders" in reality.

[ArrogantBustard]

That lovely device was invented by a physician, and used by a bunch of bloodthirsty totalitarian socialists to murder their political rivals and 'enemies of the state'.

Dr. Guillotine eventually ended up on the business end of his own invention.