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.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

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.

[DuncanWaring]

They should hire the doctor who “euthanized” a few of the more sickly patients in a New Orleans hospital as Katrina hit.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

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’...

[Mr. Jazzy]

Paging Dr. Kevorkian, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

Paging Dr. Kevorkian, please pick up the nearest white courtesy phone.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Bring back shooting.

[ArrogantBustard]

Interesting ... thank you.

[HiramQuick]

head over heels in agreeement. A close haircut will do it every time

[Gaffer]

Just go to the nearest slaughter house and consult the pikeman.

[Buckeye McFrog]

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)

[Buckeye McFrog]

unless they can lure Kevorkian down from Michigan...

[RU88]

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.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

I aim to inform and entertain...;)

[AmusedBystander]

Obama says H1N1 will do the trick.

[TruthBeforeAll]

Yep. Nitrogen is cheap, clean and definitely effective. I don’t understand why it’s not used.

[Don Corleone]

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.

[TruthBeforeAll]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_asphyxiation

[Clink]

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.

[Covenantor]

Yep. Nitrogen is cheap, clean and definitely effective. I don’t understand why it’s not used.

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.

[OrangeHoof]

A lethal injection with hot lead doesn’t require a doctor. Surely the state can find someone to administer justice that way.

[Melas]

What professional murderers are on the payroll?

[Carl LaFong]

When they find one, their first priority should be to put the Cleveland Browns out of their misery.

[Right Wing Assault]

How about scissors to the skull and then suck out their brains?

Oh, I’m sorry that’s cruel unusual punishment reserved for babies.

[MrDem]

What professional murderers are on the payroll?

I'm making jest of the murders, hitmen, etc. in prison, getting paid 50 cents/day while there.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Outsource the job to the Chinese. They do a “bang up” job on their own and they have so many of our other jobs.

Now that I think of it why don’t we outsource our prisons there also!

[Gay State Conservative]

Wasn't there a SCOTUS case recently in which a state's execution method (I think it was KY) was specifically ruled to be allowed under the "cruel and unusual" clause? I'm almost certain that there was.If I'm correct then OH can just copy that state's method...to the letter.

Problem solved.Psychopaths dispatched.

[charles1252]

I like throwing them out of a plane without a chute.

[Gay State Conservative]

Yup,I was correct.April 2008.The vote was 7-2 in favor of KY’s execution protocol.Only Ginsburg and Soutter dissented (now *there's* a surprise).So,OH can just copy KY...to the letter....and,BINGO! Another one bites the dust.

[Drew68]

I like throwing them out of a plane without a chute.

In very rare circumstances that can be survivable.

[JoeFromSidney]

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

You beat me to it. I've long recommended that as the cleanest way to execute someone. No pain, and it's 100% effective. No medical personnel needed, either.

[ridesthemiles]

1. One .38 caliber gun.

2. A couple of bullets for same.

3. Place loaded gun at one ear of convicted prisoner.

4. Point towards other ear==thru head.

5. Pull trigger.

6. Give body to coroner.
Use sack if necessary.
End of discussion.