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Family alleges Ohio execution unconstitutional
Fox News ^ | Jan 25, 2013

Posted on 01/25/2014 6:51:51 AM PST by KeyLargo

Family alleges Ohio execution unconstitutional January 25, 2014

AP

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The prolonged execution of an Ohio inmate during which he repeatedly gasped and snorted amounted to cruel and unusual punishment which should not be allowed to happen again, the inmate's family said in a federal lawsuit.

The lawsuit, filed late Friday, also alleges the drug maker that produced the medications illegally allowed them to be used for an execution and should be prohibited from making them available for capital punishment.

McGuire "repeated cycles of snorting, gurgling and arching his back, appearing to writhe in pain," the lawsuit said. "It looked and sounded as though he was suffocating."

McGuire's execution lasted 26 minutes, the longest since the state resumed putting inmates to death in 1999, according to an Associated Press analysis of all 53 execution logs maintained by the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

It remains unclear what McGuire experienced. The AP observed him appearing to fall unconscious and remaining so while he snorted, gasped and opened and shut his mouth repeatedly.

McGuire's execution, during which his adult children sobbed in dismay, has led to several calls for a moratorium on capital punishment in the state.

In addition, a separate federal lawsuit filed Thursday seeks to stop the March execution of a northeast Ohio killer on the grounds that condemned inmates could be clinically alive for as long as 45 minutes after a time of death is announced in the state death chamber.

Attorneys for Gregory Lott, who is scheduled to die March 19 for setting an East Cleveland man on fire in 1986 and leaving him to die, also say Ohio is breaking state and federal law by using the drugs without a prescription.

The lawsuit by McGuire's family targets Lake Forest, Ill.-based Hospira Inc.,

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: capitalpunishment; execution; lethalinjection; murderer
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To: The_Reader_David
Why? No chance of it being considered cruel and unusual

Of course there is...they're dead aren't they? That's cruel because they were killed, and unusual because they were alive...now they're dead.

After pronouncing the death sentence, simply release them into natural law. Let the friends and family members get things right.

21 posted on 01/25/2014 7:29:42 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: momtothree

Read complete description of the murder here:

Scroll down to fourth narrative on the webpage.

http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/pending/99/apr99.html


22 posted on 01/25/2014 7:30:31 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

Too much sympathy for the murderer and not enough for the victim.


23 posted on 01/25/2014 7:43:03 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: Doc Savage

I am with you there. That is how little compassion I have for this man removal from society. He was vicious in murdering the woman. Maybe there ought to be a rude protest in front of Little Lord Fauntleroy’s house.


24 posted on 01/25/2014 7:43:04 AM PST by healy61
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To: KeyLargo

Easy solution. Give Dennis 24 hours to respond. If we hear nothing from him then let’s just move on.


25 posted on 01/25/2014 7:48:20 AM PST by rfreedom4u (Your feelings don't trump my free speech!)
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To: KeyLargo

The left LOVES when animal shelters put down strays.

Why doesn’t the state just use the same chemicals that the left approves of for that?


26 posted on 01/25/2014 7:49:08 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Dragging would be appropriate.


27 posted on 01/25/2014 8:00:24 AM PST by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: KeyLargo

This is from the despicable Asspress. In the seventies liberal courts released murderers of all kinds and refused to punish violent offenders.

The libs have always loved brutal murderers while looking down from way up in their ivory towers, because these human beasts kill a lot of people who disagree with liberals, and they also help with population control. The libs are insulated from them of course.


28 posted on 01/25/2014 8:26:41 AM PST by Luke21
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To: KeyLargo

“repeated cycles of snorting, gurgling and arching his back, appearing to writhe in pain,”

As TUCO said...”You can feel the devil bite your a$$!”


29 posted on 01/25/2014 8:37:15 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: IronJack
There's nothing here that couldn't be cured by a large-caliber projectile being introduced into the brainstem at high speed.

Yes, a lethal injection of lead into the brain is ideal.

On the medical angle, I can't figure out why they can't just take these guys to a vet. I took a friend's pet to get put down. They gave it a shot and 10 seconds later the thing was gone. It never even twitched.

What's all the fuss with humans?

30 posted on 01/25/2014 9:40:41 AM PST by Right Wing Assault
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To: KeyLargo

By the time his body reacted to the overdose of meds, he was already brain dead. His flesh wasn’t rotten yet, but his mind and spirit were.

Honestly...don’t belive the news report. Run a google search..or any other internet search engine for that matter, and look up the drugs used, the time it takes to get them into the system, and how they act.

What he experienced was all normal.

The truth of the matter is, most people have never seen death in real life, but only on movies so their perceptions are based on false information.

The man didn’t suffer, unfortunately.


31 posted on 01/25/2014 9:59:42 AM PST by PrairieLady2
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To: KeyLargo

Warm up Old Sparky and fry the maggot.


32 posted on 01/25/2014 10:00:01 AM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: mountainlion
Hanging remains the quickest and most efficient method.The perpetrator can donate their body parts and at least make some recompense fo their crimes.

The use of drugs contaminates the lungs,heart,kidneys,and liver making it impossible to transplant.

Pierrepoint interview

Britains Last Hangman

33 posted on 01/25/2014 11:19:22 AM PST by managusta (The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.)
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To: managusta

“Hanging remains the quickest and most efficient method.The perpetrator can donate their body parts and at least make some recompense fo their crimes.

The use of drugs contaminates the lungs,heart,kidneys,and liver making it impossible to transplant.”

Yes, but who would want organs from a killer anyway?

Might be bad ju ju.

Anyway I would recommend organ removal from killers prior to execution to remedy that. :)


34 posted on 01/25/2014 12:22:00 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: SVTCobra03

Supreme Court sets execution date for Michael Taylor
January 24, 2014 By Mike Lear

The state Supreme Court has set an execution date for Michael Taylor, one of two men who pleaded guilty to the 1989 murder of a 15-year-old girl. The Court has ordered that he be executed February 26.

Taylor and Roderick Nunley both admitted to abducting Ann Harrison from the Kansas City bus stop where she was waiting to go to school. Taylor had raped the girl with Nunley’s help in the basement of Nunley’s mother’s home before fatally stabbing her and abandoning her body in the trunk of a car.

Taylor turns 47 January 30.

http://www.missourinet.com/2014/01/24/supreme-court-sets-execution-date-for-michael-taylor/


35 posted on 01/26/2014 8:18:42 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Lawyer urged inmate to fake suffocation during execution, Ohio prison guards say

Published January 28, 2014

| Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio – An attorney for a condemned Ohio inmate whose slow, gasping execution with a new drug combination renewed questions about the death penalty was temporarily suspended last week while officials investigated whether he had coached the condemned man to fake symptoms of suffocation.

The Office of the Public Defender said Robert Lowe, one of the attorneys representing inmate Dennis McGuire, was back at work Monday after an internal review failed to substantiate the allegation.

State prison records released Monday say McGuire told guards that Lowe counseled him to make a show of his death that would, perhaps, lead to abolition of the death penalty. But three accounts from prison officials indicate McGuire refused to put on a display

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/01/28/lawyer-urged-inmate-to-fake-suffocation-during-execution-ohio-prison-guards-say/?intcmp=trending


36 posted on 01/28/2014 7:43:31 AM PST by KeyLargo
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