Good riddance!
Posted on 01/16/2014 2:07:58 PM PST by bestintxas
Ohio inmate Dennis McGuire appeared to gasp and convulse for roughly 10 minutes before he finally died Thursday during his execution by lethal injection using a new combination of drugs, reporters who witnessed it said.
He was convicted in 1994 of the rape and murder of 22-year-old Joy Stewart, who was seven months pregnant. Her relatives were at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville to witness his death, according to tweets from television reporter Sheila Gray.
McGuire's "children and daughter-in-law were crying and visibly upset," Gray tweeted.
Killer executed in Ohio A Dayton Daily News reporter who also watched the execution said that before the drugs took effect, McGuire thanked Stewart's family for a letter he apparently got. "I'm sorry," McGuire reportedly said.
The convicted murderer was pronounced dead at 10:53 a.m. ET,
The execution generated controversy because, like many states, Ohio has been forced to find new drug protocols after European-based manufacturers banned U.S. prisons from using their drugs in executions -- among them, Danish-based Lundbeck, which manufactures pentobarbital.
The state used a combination of the drugs midazolam, a sedative; and the painkiller hydromorphone, the state corrections department told CNN.
In an opinion piece written for CNN earlier this week, a law professor noted that McGuire's attorneys argued he would "suffocate to death in agony and terror."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
“Stingy Europe. They want to hog all their killin’ drugs for grannies and sick children. “
You have hit the nail on the head.
Ten minutes, as anyone [me for example] who’s watched a loved one die from cancer over the course of six or seven months will tell you, is not “slow and agonizing.” It is probably not even “slow and agonizing” compared with the relatively rapid death of his victim. Your concern is misplaced.
I am trying to find some compassion. Cannot do it. For his victim, yes.
Yup. Fine over here.
As opposed to a trip through a wood chipper.
“I don’t feel sorry for him nor do I doubt he deserved what he got. But the sentence was death, not slow and agonizing death. The sentence as proscribed by law is what should be carried out or the sentence should be changed. I also agree that the 24-year delay in carrying out the sentence also should not have happened.”
I suppose that you are referencing “cruel and unusual” punishment.
Please define for us, “cruel and unusual punishment”. My point: Everyone on the planet has an opinion as to what ‘cruel and unusual’ means because it is not specifically defined in the Constitution”.
My opinion is that I hope he suffered a lot during his death throes and ask why couldn’t his suffering last a lot longer?
I’d go along with it if the murdered woman forgave him. Seems only fair. Oh, and the baby he killed too.
I saw a show about the Hemlock Society and suicide kits...a couple of helium bottles from a party store and a plastic bag for a hood. Less than $100 IIRC.
A couple of deep breaths in the hood brings unconsciousness within a minute. Death from asphyxiation within 10 minutes.
Since public lynchings are out, I suggest this for pedos.
LOL
Reading of Mr. McGuire’s death has upset me so much that I cannot stop crying. I am typing this through tears. It’s so bad I’ve had to call in sick from today’s drum circle.
IMO, he went too easy.
My only concern was that the sentence be carried out according to law.I took pains to make that clear.You were poised to counter anyone showing sympathy to the condemned murderer which I did not.I still maintain that the penalty is death and that it should be carried out the quickest, and yes, most painless way. The condemned criminal will be just as dead as a from a more painful and prolonged method. This is my last word on this potentially endless topic.
*snicker*
Want some chamomile tea?
bleh he should have been injected with something far more painful like a lethal dose of amphetamine (feeling your heart burst is not a comfy way to die)
They could try using a 25’ length of rope around the neck and dropping the condemned from 35’ up. It would be pretty quick, if that’s the issue.
Plastic bag over the head sounds good,
Drano would world,hanging seemed to be pretty effective.
This country has become a nation of limp-wristed fairies.
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