Killer's execution takes almost 25 minutes

[eznutz]

A condemned man appeared to gasp several times and took an unusually long time to die — almost 25 minutes — in an execution carried out Thursday with a combination of drugs never before tried in the U.S.

Dennis McGuire's attorney Allen Bohnert called the convicted killer's death "a failed, agonizing experiment" and added: "The people of the state of Ohio should be appalled at what was done here today in their names."

An attorney for McGuire's family said it plans to sue the state over what happened. Dayton defense lawyer Jon Paul Rion said the family is deeply disturbed by the execution, which it believes violated his constitutional rights.

McGuire's lawyers had attempted last week to block his execution, arguing that the untried method could lead to a medical phenomenon known as air hunger and cause him to suffer "agony and terror" while struggling to catch his breath.

McGuire, 53, made loud snorting noises during one of the longest executions since Ohio resumed capital punishment in 1999. Nearly 25 minutes passed between the time the lethal drugs began flowing and McGuire was pronounced dead at 10:53 a.m.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ohio-killer-close-execution-untried-method

 

[danmand]

European pharmaceutical companies (a. o. Lundbeck) have stopped selling sodium thiopental to the US.

 

[out4fun]

They should all take this long.

 

[Aardvark154]

Perhaps European pharmaceutical companies would prefer that the gallows be brought back.

 

[danmand]

They should all take this long.

Even the ones that are mistakenly convicted

 

[danmand]

Perhaps European pharmaceutical companies would prefer that the gallows be brought back.

I do not know if they care. I know that for one company, shareholders (I am one) do not want blood on their hands.

 

[bazokajoe]

Fuck him.IThe more pain and suffering he went through the better.

 

[destillat]

boo hoo

 

[Mervyn]

While it sounds horrible, do they know for certain he was conscious and aware during all this ?

 

[theycallmebruce]

So I ask you, what did he do to deserve this in the first place ??

 

[K Douglas]

Maybe know he knows how his pregnant victim felt when he raped and murdered her. I'm not a supporter of capital punishment but I won't lose a minute of sleep knowing it took 25 minutes for this guy to expire.

 

[mandrill]

Even the ones that are mistakenly convicted

Are you insinuating that they should die more quickly?

 

[shakenbake]

Constitutional rights?

What about the people who he killed? What about their rights?

 

[Aardvark154]

I do not know if they care. I know that for one company, shareholders (I am one) do not want blood on their hands.

Then release the patent.

Further there is a certain irony to the fact that it is the commonly used drug for Euthanasia in the Netherlands and Belgium.

 

[pipelayer]

Cocksukin family member gonna sue the state now. Wtf. The dude was a killer. Good it took 25 min.

 

[danmand]

Then release the patent.

Further there is a certain irony to the fact that it is the commonly used drug for Euthanasia in the Netherlands and Belgium.

There is no active patent on sodium thiopental. The sole american producer of the drug discontinued production in 2011.

Only a sick, hypochritical mind would see an irony there.

 

[rafterman]

Yeah I think it is more an issue that the only countries that manufacture it are in Europe and do not have the death penalty and will not supply the drug without a guarantee that it will not be used for executions.

 

[kkelso]

They should all take this long.

Amen!

 

[nottyboi]

“We have forgiven him, but that does not negate the need for him to pay for his actions,” Stewart’s family said in a statement after the execution.


hahahahhah spoken like true Christians.

 

[LuxeLadyAmber]

Might the "State" (Gov't) want to hold itself to a higher moral standard than (what seems to be) a tortured, mentally ill sociopath?

As Gandhi aptly said, "An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."

A condemned man appeared to gasp several times and took an unusually long time to die — almost 25 minutes — in an execution carried out Thursday with a combination of drugs never before tried in the U.S.

Dennis McGuire's attorney Allen Bohnert called the convicted killer's death "a failed, agonizing experiment" and added: "The people of the state of Ohio should be appalled at what was done here today in their names."

An attorney for McGuire's family said it plans to sue the state over what happened. Dayton defense lawyer Jon Paul Rion said the family is deeply disturbed by the execution, which it believes violated his constitutional rights.

McGuire's lawyers had attempted last week to block his execution, arguing that the untried method could lead to a medical phenomenon known as air hunger and cause him to suffer "agony and terror" while struggling to catch his breath.

McGuire, 53, made loud snorting noises during one of the longest executions since Ohio resumed capital punishment in 1999. Nearly 25 minutes passed between the time the lethal drugs began flowing and McGuire was pronounced dead at 10:53 a.m.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ohio-killer-close-execution-untried-method