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Alabama postpones execution of inmate with damaged veins
ABC News ^ | February 23, 2018

Posted on 02/23/2018 1:55:57 AM PST by SMGFan

Alabama on Thursday halted the execution of an inmate who had argued that his veins were too damaged for lethal injection, because medical staff did not think they could connect the intravenous line by the time the death warrant expired at midnight.

Alabama Corrections Commissioner Jeff Dunn said the prison system halted Doyle Lee Hamm's execution around 11:30 p.m. "out of an abundance of caution" after medical staff said they did not think they could obtain "the appropriate venous access" before midnight. "It was a time issue," Dunn said. "I wouldn't necessarily characterize what we had tonight as a problem. ... The only indication I have is that in their medical judgment it was more of a time issue given the late hour."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: deathrow
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Damn 30 years after the crime.

Will Cruz every get put to death?

1 posted on 02/23/2018 1:55:57 AM PST by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

...go in through the femoral artery like they do for stent surgery.


2 posted on 02/23/2018 2:01:50 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: SMGFan

Numerous condemned men have tried to beat down their arm veins before an execution, but I don’t think that has ever worked.

The man in this case apparently had significant vein damage from years of drug abuse.


3 posted on 02/23/2018 2:13:04 AM PST by zeestephen
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10th of 12 children in Hamm family

Convicted on Dec. 1, 1987, his current status is ‘closed.’

https://heavy.com/news/2018/02/doyle-lee-hamm-execution-alabama/


4 posted on 02/23/2018 2:27:00 AM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: zeestephen

Get access through a half inch opening after using a large caliber weapon from 35 feet.

Problem solved.


5 posted on 02/23/2018 2:32:59 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: SMGFan

Get Ole Sparky out of storage and fry the bitch.


6 posted on 02/23/2018 3:04:52 AM PST by boknows
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To: SMGFan

I have a spare 22 bullet they could have.


7 posted on 02/23/2018 3:11:05 AM PST by laweeks
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By all means, get the perp healthier first, then kill him...


8 posted on 02/23/2018 3:11:45 AM PST by Enduro Guy (Always cov fe'fe)
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N2

NASA has proved it works.

9 posted on 02/23/2018 3:14:04 AM PST by cynwoody
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Get a rope....if he has a head it will work!!!


10 posted on 02/23/2018 3:16:18 AM PST by ontap
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To: SMGFan

What the noose? How in the firing squad did that happen? They can’t come up with a non-vein-involved solution? How were they going to anesthetize him for his cancer surgery last December?


11 posted on 02/23/2018 3:33:39 AM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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none of those mutts can run a central line?
12 posted on 02/23/2018 4:07:05 AM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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Oh, come on. If every last vein in this guy’s body is too damaged to start an IV, he’d be dead already.


13 posted on 02/23/2018 4:08:58 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: SMGFan

The irony....lol


14 posted on 02/23/2018 4:14:09 AM PST by cranked
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To: Darksheare

He’s still got a neck, don’t he?


15 posted on 02/23/2018 4:22:43 AM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: SMGFan

Why don’t they just use a pillow?


16 posted on 02/23/2018 4:48:17 AM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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Just strap him down and give him a good whop on the forehead with a 4-1/2 pound hammer.


17 posted on 02/23/2018 5:13:05 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code amd only practiced by warriors.)
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There are several good veins on his uhhh root shall we say, use them..


18 posted on 02/23/2018 5:23:13 AM PST by rebel25 (GOD, Family, guns, and duck hunting, everything else is just noise.)
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Just hang him or give him a firing squad; short and sweet.


19 posted on 02/23/2018 5:26:12 AM PST by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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I still think self termination should be an option for death row inmates. My friends and I during a night of imbibing adult beverages started talking about the death penalty. We wanted a way where in the eyes of the church, the condemned would be guaranteed a trip to hell. No forgiveness.

We came up with a system that was based on completing a circuit. Within the cell there are two points on the wall and two points on the floor. The condemned would have to put hands and feet on the connections. The fifth connection is for the forehead. Once the forehead makes the connection, a 50 cal bullet is fired into the head. The bullet won’t fire until all 5 connections are made.

Once the prisoner is put on death row, all he sees within his cell is that contraption. Could be days, months or years, but it is there staring him in the face until the day he is taken from his cell and executed by the state.


20 posted on 02/23/2018 5:49:29 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (What is a Blue City? First world cities run by third world politicians.)
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