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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?
I prefer the guillotine. Swift and sure.
Kreton;1062740041[B said:[/B]]I dont oppose the death penalty but a lethal injection of drugs that has never been tested seems wrong.
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.
Just another problem with the death penalty.
It is inhumane, period.
States deciding if someone lives or dies is a problem indeed.
Perotista;[B said:[/B]1062740049]I prefer the guillotine. Swift and sure.
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.
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,Better a deserving sub-human should suffer and die than an undeserving innocent animal.provided there is no possibility they were convicted wrongly.
I dont oppose the death penalty but a lethal injection of drugs that has never been tested seems wrong.
How can you be sure he has not?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.
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