Posted on 10/05/2009 1:36:55 PM PDT by KingofZion
A federal appeals court Monday halted the execution of an inmate three weeks after problems with a lethal-injection attempt.
A panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled 2-1 to grant the request of 43-year-old Lawrence Reynolds Jr., who had been sentenced to die for strangling his 67-year-old neighbor during a 1994 robbery.
On Sept. 15, Gov. Ted Strickland stopped the lethal injection of Romell Broom after state executioners struggled for two hours to find a usable vein.
Mr. Broom's execution is on hold while his attorneys prepare for a Nov. 30 federal-court hearing. They argue that an unprecedented second execution attempt on Mr. Broom violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
*** Judge Jeffrey Sutton dissented, arguing that the state's policy addresses a scenario where repeated attempts to find a vein are unusable.
"Why assume an execution protocol is unconstitutional when one of the humane features of the protocol -- that the State will not continue trying to access a usable vein beyond a sensible time limit -- is being followed?" Judge Sutton wrote.
Mr. Strickland's decision to stop Mr. Broom's execution appears to be unprecedented since capital punishment was declared constitutional and the nation resumed executions in the 1970s. Inmates in several states have experienced delays with the injection of lethal chemicals, but those executions always proceeded the same day.
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Why is this so hard? States should just dispense with this injection nonsense and put a bullet in his head, which was certainly constitutional as far as the US constitutional framers were concerned.
What’s wrong with hanging?
I never understood the nonsense about there being some always painless way to kill someone.
Hang ‘em and be done with it.
What’s wrong with hanging?
I never understood the nonsense about there being some always painless way to kill someone.
Hang ‘em and be done with it.
I prefer hanging, and it is still constitutional too.
Apparently strangling works.
In the event the executioners can’t find a vein, maybe the family members of the victim could step up and use a baseball bat. Three or four really good whacks on the head will do the trick.
COnsidering what methods of execution were common place when the Constitution was written and signed, all this nonsense over the unconstitutionality of this type or that type of execution is B$. Framers didn’t have lethal injections or electric chairs. They simply hung you from a tree or a gallows if you were lucky or they just shot you.
I believe there are a couple of large, easily accessible veins in the neck ...
THANK you! I read the headline and said aloud, “Just SHOOT ‘im!” Or, if you prefer, a nice double-tap to the back of the head.
But, I guess that is messier to clean up than simply rolling the body out on a gurney.
.45 would work!
This is 2009 after all.
It seems to me that by now we would
have some way to hang, electrocute,
and gas them all at the same time.
Also, the administration of pure LSD
to the accused should proceed the practice,
with all the execution personnel wearing
life like silicon masks of the victim.
Have a nice trip.
Agreed.
A single bullet to the back of the head into the brain stem. Quick, merciful, Constitutional.
Quick, painless, certain, requires no poisonous chemicals, easy to clean up, doesn't disfigure the body ...
what's not to like?
hang them in a gas chamber with an electrified cable?
But will they halt a botched abortion?
Don’t they check these guys veins out before?
Note to self: Next time I find myself on death row about to be executed, refrain from drinking any water 24-48 hours prior.
Yup. Best method is lead poisoning. Quick, cheap and easy.
Redundant but it works for me.
Nitrogen Asphxiation - mask, 100% Nitrogen at 1.1 atmospheres. Administer until no brain wave activity. 100% natural, foolproof, painless, environmentally friendly way to execute.
To take that long is downright stupid and had to be on purpose....I could do better than that and I am only a retired nurse...they should get a vet to inject....they always get the vein of a cat or dog on the first try...
Now THAT sounds like fun!
I’d like to see him go out like saddam did.....or maybe like saddams kids did, after reading this:
http://www.drc.state.oh.us/public/Reynolds_ClemReport.pdf
He gets a chair?
Ah yeah baby! Now you’re talking! Throw a little boom boom in there I am all for it!!!
50 cal sniper rifle would also work.
I could get a line in this fellow in under 5 minutes, Guaranteed.
Jugular, subclavian, femoral, radial.....
Heck, we used to do cut-downs all the time if we had to.
this is almost a Junkies Get Out Of Jail Free Card
Executions should be performed by the local vet.
This lethal injection farce is just what the bleeding hearts want . . . something that they can delay executions of human scum with. The firing squads, electric chairs, and hang-man nooses killed the scum to easily. Gotta’ have these intricacies with these punks being unable to get a needle into their veins.
This monster has been on death row for 25 years. He either is guilty or not. If he’s guilty, shoot him. Disgusting that he can survive at our expense for 25 years on a qualified jury’s decision. Outrageous!
Does that work in reverse (drink lots of water 24 hrs before)? I ask because nurses always have a tough time finding a vein in my step-dads arm, not that he's gonna be executed.
I would think the often protracted time to set up a lethal injection procedure is in many ways cruel. Britain’s master hangman, Albert Pierrepoint, was said to be able to walk into the room, manacle the condemned, apply the hood and noose and spring the trap in less than a minute.
Yes, I’ve been told by nurses to be sure and be hydrated for vein poking. A test I’ve also been told: on the back of the hand in the “webbing” between thumb and forefinger, pinch some skin and pull up. The rate at which it flattens down upon letting go is a hydration indicator. You may want to try this with varying amounts of previous water intake to judge your own hydration reaction time.
Hang ‘em and be done with it.
Properly done, long drop hanging may be the quickest and least painful method of execution.
From what I’ve read they tried to find a vein for 2 hours. He flexed his arms, helped with the tubing, and was very cooperative. The Prison Director even gave him a thank you for how far he went in trying to help them out.
I’m against the death penalty in general, but this is embarrasing. This guy just wants to die with some dignity and we can’t even do that right.
Indeed, although a bullet in the head in, or should be, foolproof.
Unfortunately, or not, doing it,long-drop hanging, properly requires a competence that is often lacking. Probably because executions are too rare.
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