Posted on 10/26/2009 2:25:13 PM PDT by 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.
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Anybody convicted of murder should be given only one appeal
then given a lie detector test along with truth serum.
If they fail either test, increase the amount of truth serum
until they are dead.
This might clear the very few people wrongly convicted and
might clear up some old murders and felonies.
Lawyers (Liars) will hate this idea because they couldn’t
make as much money off the tax payers.
They should hire the doctor who “euthanized” a few of the more sickly patients in a New Orleans hospital as Katrina hit.
Dr Guillotin was an opponent of the death penalty who proposed the use of the machine (which was not his own personal invention) as an interim measure for killing convicts humanely whilst the death penalty still existed. He was mortified when his name became associated with the killing machine which became the symbol of the French Revolutionary Terror.
Also, the Dr Guillotin in question didn’t die on the guillotine (he almost did, but was released when Robespierre fell from power) He died of old age in 1814. However, another Dr Guillotin from Lyons was guillotined during the Reign of Terror. Both of these events lead to the misconception the ‘The’ Dr Guillotin was executed by his own ‘invention’...
Paging Dr. Kevorkian, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Paging Dr. Kevorkian, please pick up the nearest white courtesy phone.
Bring back shooting.
Interesting ... thank you.
head over heels in agreeement. A close haircut will do it every time
Just go to the nearest slaughter house and consult the pikeman.
I know we all support DP on this board, but it does appear to run smack into the Hippocratic Oath (unless you’re Cass Sunstein or Zeke Emanuel and belive it is passe)
unless they can lure Kevorkian down from Michigan...
I’m no doctor but if they want my advice I’ll give it to them. Find a strong tree and a good piece of rope. End of story.
I aim to inform and entertain...;)
Obama says H1N1 will do the trick.
Yep. Nitrogen is cheap, clean and definitely effective. I don’t understand why it’s not used.
In the old Soviet Union the condemmed prisoner would be shot in the back of the head by his guard while walking to dinner. Date and time unknown beforehand.
I’m quite sure that if this inmate had to be rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery they would be able to find a vein for an IV.
Heck with that, go green. Use carbon monoxide and get carbon credits. CO binds with blood and gets buried with the perp. Win-win solution. Heck of headache to boot.
A lethal injection with hot lead doesn’t require a doctor. Surely the state can find someone to administer justice that way.
What professional murderers are on the payroll?
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