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Ohio killer to get 2-drug injection untried in US

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Ohio killer to get 2-drug injection untried in US | Fox News

COLUMBUS, OHIO – Ohio will use a two-drug combination untried as an execution method in the U.S. to put to death a condemned inmate who raped and killed a pregnant woman, the state prisons agency confirmed Tuesday.
The determination means the state was unable to obtain an unregulated batch of pentobarbital, the drug Ohio used until its manufacturer put it off limits for executions.
Instead, the state will use drugs from its untested backup execution method in the Jan. 16 execution of Dennis McGuire, according to the decision contained in a memo by Southern Ohio Correctional Facility warden Donald Morgan and released to The Associated Press after a public records request.
The untested method: an intravenous combination of midazolam, a sedative, and hydromorphone, a painkiller. No state has put a prisoner to death with those drugs in any fashion.
 
I dont oppose the death penalty but a lethal injection of drugs that has never been tested seems wrong.

It hasn't been tested? Did they just randomly come up with it?
 
Kreton;1062740041[B said:
]I dont oppose the death penalty but a lethal injection of drugs that has never been tested seems wrong.
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It kind of sounds like the state will be testing the effectiveness of those drugs on Mr McGuire.

I wonder what they will do if the drugs don't kill this guy?

IOW: what's their back-up plan?
 
If there is any information on it possibly being "cruel and unusual" his lawyer should challenge it.
 
I dont oppose the death penalty but a lethal injection of drugs that has never been tested seems wrong.

If you believe in the death penalty, you should have no problem with this. Testing? Why should untold rats, guinea pigs, and monkeys have to die in order to "test" the lethal dose of a chemical? With thousands of prisoners on death rows in dozens of US states, I see nothing wrong with doing the "testing" on them, provided there is no possibility they were convicted wrongly. Better a deserving sub-human should suffer and die than an undeserving innocent animal.
 
I have never understood the complication of finding the right drug cocktail.
Morphine and Exsanguination, should do the job nicely, and cheap.
 
If you believe in the death penalty, you should have no problem with this. Testing? Why should untold rats, guinea pigs, and monkeys have to die in order to "test" the lethal dose of a chemical? With thousands of prisoners on death rows in dozens of US states, I see nothing wrong with doing the "testing" on them, provided there is no possibility they were convicted wrongly. Better a deserving sub-human should suffer and die than an undeserving innocent animal.

I am not opposed to the death penalty at all but I do believe it should be done in a fairly painless and in a humane manner when it is used. I would strongly prefer a physical execution to a drugged one.
 
Just another problem with the death penalty.

It is inhumane, period.
 
Just another problem with the death penalty.

It is inhumane, period.

States deciding if someone lives or dies is a problem indeed.
 
States deciding if someone lives or dies is a problem indeed.

The biggest problem being that there is always a chance of killing an innocent person. That is just unacceptable.

But yeah, to not derail the thread further, Ohio shouldn't use this untested method to kill someone. It just screams of being wrong.
 
Perotista;[B said:
1062740049]I prefer the guillotine. Swift and sure.
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I don't believe that anyone ever walked away from the guillotine with a smile on their face
 
The biggest problem being that there is always a chance of killing an innocent person. That is just unacceptable.

But yeah, to not derail the thread further, Ohio shouldn't use this untested method to kill someone. It just screams of being wrong.

No idea why his lawyer is not challenging it as we speak.
 
I'm not sure why they don't just give a big dose of a sedative with a direct injection of potassium chloride.
 
If you believe in the death penalty, you should have no problem with this. Testing? Why should untold rats, guinea pigs, and monkeys have to die in order to "test" the lethal dose of a chemical? With thousands of prisoners on death rows in dozens of US states, I see nothing wrong with doing the "testing" on them,
provided there is no possibility they were convicted wrongly.
Better a deserving sub-human should suffer and die than an undeserving innocent animal.




That is where the problem comes in. Some people have been wrongly convicted
 
The government should not play God. Only God should decide when a person should die.
 
I dont oppose the death penalty but a lethal injection of drugs that has never been tested seems wrong.

Someone has to be the first one to try it.

Personally, a bullet to the back of the head seems a cheaper alternative, and we all know this method has been tried again and again, all with good success.
 
This is all so stupid.
Strap them to a chair, line up two twelve gauge shotguns, front and back of the head loaded with slugs, set a timer to fire the rounds simultaneously. They won't feel a damned thing.

Too gross?

Place the condemned in a metal tube, seal it, drop in a deep part of the ocean. Again, they won't feel a thing PLUS there is no mess to clean up.

People are so strange about the DP.
 
I dont oppose the death penalty but a lethal injection of drugs that has never been tested seems wrong.

A firing squad works everytime.
 
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