CNN: "Execution problems prompt one-week reprieve for Ohio inmate"

[mariomike]

This was supposed to be more humane than the old ways?:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/15/ohio.execution.problems/index.html

 

[Yrys]

What is humane and what is not is subjective...

 

[PMedMoe]

The guy abducted, raped and stabbed a 14-year-old girl.  Personally, I could care less how humane his death sentence is.

You reap what you sow.  Karma's a b1tch and all that stuff.  :

 

[mariomike]

I don't disagree, Moe. He has had it coming since 1984. But, every time they botch an injection it allows opponents to argue the death penalty is "cruel and unusual" and therefore unconstitutional. ( 8th Amendment ).

"The crime happened 5 months after he had been released from a nine-year prison lock-up for raping a 12-year-old girl in 1975."

 

[Larkvall]

The should have just sent the word out requesting volunteers for a firing squad.

 

[X-mo-1979]

This is something they have to fix.They have to ensure its humane.Otherwise there will be too many people up in arms about killing murderers....and end up like other countries with a weak justice system.

 

[mariomike]

This is something they have to fix.They have to ensure its humane.Otherwise there will be too many people up in arms about killing murderers....and end up like other countries with a weak justice system.

Apparently, this is the first time since 1946 in Louisiana that a botched execution has been rescheduled. I think the ACLU will use it as an example to delay executions in Ohio - and perhaps the country - for years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Francis

 

[X-mo-1979]

Apparently, this is the first time since 1946 in Louisiana that a botched execution has been rescheduled. I think the ACLU will use it as an example to delay executions in Ohio - and perhaps the country - for years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Francis

Thanks!

One thing I wish we still had here in Canada.I hope thats one thing America always keeps.Some people just should not live.
I wonder if there is maybe a drug they could give prior to the execution to make the veins more predominate?Maybe you medical people could chime in...as I have no clue.

Could they be dehydrating themselves on purpose to make it hard?

 

[the 48th regulator]

Let him meet this character, and be over with it......


dileas

tess

 

[X-mo-1979]

That guy could find a vein....artery....

 

[Gunner98]

Perhaps all of his blood had pooled around his tightened sphincter.  As was stated they could have had a plan B - pillow, pistol, electric chair, guillotine - Monte Hall voice, "let's see what we have behind door number 2."  He has cheated death.  I wonder if those needle stickers lost their job or were sent to the local Blood drive location for more venipuncture practice.

 

[GAP]

This is something they have to fix.They have to ensure its humane.Otherwise there will be too many people up in arms about killing murderers....and end up like other countries with a weak justice system.

Like Canada maybe? We just store them for a bit, then let them out to play again...

 

[X-mo-1979]

Like Canada maybe? We just store them for a bit, then let them out to play again...

Thats what I was getting at.

I would welcome death penalty to any case WAY beyond reasonable doubt here in Canada.

Come to think of it that would make a awesome TV show following inmates on their last week alive.Put it on between Hoarders and intervention.

I would tune in weekly to watch people get killed.Do a little background info on what they did,follow them for 7 days prior to death...

 

[mariomike]

I would tune in weekly to watch people get killed.Do a little background info on what they did,follow them for 7 days prior to death...

I would prefer not to see any more dead people. But, I would be curious to know what they ordered for their last meals:
http://www.deadmaneating.com/

 

[X-mo-1979]

Thanks for the link!

 

[mariomike]

Bon appetit!
Remember the ep on "King of the Hill" when the guys decided to prepare a last meal for themselves? When it came time to sit down for it, they suddenly lost their appetites. All, except Bill, that is. Bill said that when he was under stress that it made him hungry!  ;D

 

[X-mo-1979]

ha!
Ol Bill...
I'm gonna write parliament and see if I can start my own "gluag" of sorts.If your sentenced to life no more parole in 7 years.Its life in northern canada digging diamonds for bread.

 

[PMedMoe]

Article Link

Tim Sweeney, an attorney for Broom, said his client is “relived,” but noted there is still work to do.

I think that should read "relieved" however, it kind of makes sense here.

“There’s still a state that wants to execute Romell Broom even though he’s been through this horrific, tortuous 2 and 1/2-hour battle with the executioners on Tuesday, and it’s our hope that we can convince the courts that once the state has tried once to execute this man and has failed, that they can’t try again.”

“Waiting to be executed again is anguishing,” Broom said in an affidavit filed in federal district court in Columbus. “It is very stressful to think about the fact that the State of Ohio intends to cause me the same physical pain next week.”

They could always arrange for someone to rape and stab you to death instead.  :

 

[mariomike]

I think that should read "relieved" however, it kind of makes sense here.
They could always arrange for someone to rape and stab you to death instead.  :

They had the electric chair standing by:

 

[mariomike]

I wonder if there is maybe a drug they could give prior to the execution to make the veins more predominate?Maybe you medical people could chime in...as I have no clue.

Paramedic Network News PNN reports: "Ongoing scrutiny continues to focus on Ohio EMTs functioning as executioners. Several observers have questioned the skill level of the EMS workers involved. PICK lines or a central vein can be set up to facilitate the next execution attempt, but both procedures must be done by physicians.
Radiology equipment could be used to locate a vein under the skin, so more permanent port-a-caths or a PICK lines could be inserted. Or a central line could be inserted into the vein in Broom's neck.
However, all those procedures are typically done at hospitals - usually by physicians. Ohio's execution team is made up of emergency medical technicians.
Ms. Walburn said officials are assessing what the EMTs are qualified to do - including possible "additional access points" that could be used for lethal injection.
They are not allowed to do most medical procedures and "will not work outside the scope of what they're trained to do," she said."
"Last week's fiasco was the third time since 2006 that Ohio corrections officials have struggled to complete an execution by lethal injection. The problem each time has been difficulty finding a vein. The first two were eventually successful, although the 2007 execution of Christopher Newton dragged on so long he was granted a bathroom break."
http://www.paramedic-network-news.com/