Posted on 08/10/2018 8:51:15 AM PDT by KingofZion
Tennessee executed Billy Ray Irick on Thursday night, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a final request to stay his execution. Convicted of the 1985 rape and murder of 7-year-old Paula Dyer, Irick is the state’s first inmate to be put to death since 2009. He was also the first to receive Tennessee’s controversial new three-drug cocktail.
Thursday’s lethal injection was made up of compounded midazolam, used to render a person unable to feel pain during an execution, a paralytic drug called vecuronium bromide, and compounded potassium chloride for the killing agent. Potassium chloride has been described by the Supreme Court as “chemically burning at the stake.”
In recent years, there have been numerous executions where witness accounts raised questions about whether the inmates were sufficiently anesthetized when the killing drugs were administered. These performances have raised questions about Midazolam’s effectiveness as a sedative in executions. Thursday’s application for a stay of execution followed a lower state court determination that the new combination of drugs may not be not chemically appropriate.
*** The request to delay was referred to the U.S. Supreme Court by Justice Elena Kagan. The only noted dissent was from Justice Sonia Sotomayor; the court’s order did not specify how the other justices would have voted. Irick’s is the first death-penalty case that’s come to the court since Justice Anthony M. Kennedy retired July 31, which left the court shorthanded.
“Although the Midazolam may temporarily render Irick unconscious, the onset of pain and suffocation will rouse him. And it may do so just as the paralysis sets in, too late for him to alert bystanders that his execution has gone horribly (if predictably) wrong,” wrote Sotomayor. The dissent echoes comments she made last year aimed at Midazolam in a case involving an Alabama inmate.
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I wish more people would be so worried about those suyb human savages victims than the savages.
Apologies to sub human savages.
Is he dead? That’s all that matters.
Midazolam, aka Versed, is the drug used to put you to sleep prior to surgery. Propofol is then used to paralyze your respiratory system so you can be incubated (put on a ventilator)
Potassium DOES burn/sting if too concentrated and pushed too fast into too small a vein. But you aren’t going to feel it if you are knocked out first.
We ought to go to the Chinese method: shot in the back of the head without warning “on the way to dinner”.
“Although the Midazolam may temporarily render Irick unconscious, the onset of pain and suffocation will rouse him. And it may do so just as the paralysis sets in, too late for him to alert bystanders that his execution has gone horribly (if predictably) wrong,”
EXCELLENT!
Just OD them on fentanyl like 30,000 Americans did to themselves last year.
https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates
Yup, nitrogen is the answer.
Why didn’t they just OD the guy with Propofal?He’d go to sleep and never wake up like Micheal Jackson.
Pith the bastards with an ice pick.
and rope is free.
= = =
Well, you are supposed to use Hemp.
So we are back to a drug connection.
Too much of an over dose of Midazolam, aka Versed can kill you with no pain.
Millions of us have had Versed pre op or pre procedure. Most of us had no recall of the surgery or procedure and went home with a driver for the rest of the day. It is painless and eliminates any memory of what happened, (not necessary to kill a killer).
btt
Actually, I like the firing squad method
I fail to understand the drama here. Its not like its that difficult to come up with a drug that is guaranteed to kill. On one page you have kilos of smuggled fentanyl, allegedly strong enough to cause death from a dose of mear micrograms. Give them a spoonful of that. They won’t feel a thing, and they WILL die.
As emotionally satisfying as it may be to make the scum to be executed suffer, it's not necessary and counterproductive.
Again, the fact that there is any controversy over methods of execution is because both sides apparently want the controversy to continue for their own reasons.
Under obamacare the cost of using anesthesiologists in the execution chamber is prohibitive.
People may actually get the idea that the State of Tennessee respects life.
The main problem with capital punishment is that we don't use it nearly as often as we should to remove garbage like this killer from the planet. However, even occassional clean up is better than none at all.
The 7 year old girl suffered horribly as did her 3 brothers locked in an adjoining room and forced to listen to her death
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