Last week, Dennis McGuire was executed in Ohio and it took between fifteen and twenty-six minutes to kill him during which time he was making strangling sounds and showing other signs that this was far from the 'antiseptic' execution officials had planned for him.
One or more prison guards say now that McGuire's attorney counseled him to make a show of his death for the effect it would have on capital punishment in the country. (Mail Online. Prison guards say executed man was 'coached' by his attorney to fake symptoms of suffocation during 'agonizing' death from new drug)
Here's a wild tip: there's no way McGuire could have done anything if he were not still alive to do it. The guards are using the lowest, sleaziest excuse they can possibly find to cover their own incompetence. The drugs did, in fact, take that long to kill him and any idea that he was staying alive just to make some political point is some of the most depraved thinking I have ever heard. He was staying alive because he didn't want his heart to stop beating.
The reason this sort of thing has become an issue is that European Big Pharma is where the U.S. gets the drugs it needs to abuse for an execution but the Europeans have consciences and stopped selling the drugs once it was clear what the U.S. would do with them. The U.S. jails turned to other combinations of drugs and as well to lethal single doses of other drugs. Some are reputed to be using the same drugs used to put animals to sleep.
That the state can kill a man and not even have the balls to own it is pretty much typical of what America has become.
One or more prison guards say now that McGuire's attorney counseled him to make a show of his death for the effect it would have on capital punishment in the country. (Mail Online. Prison guards say executed man was 'coached' by his attorney to fake symptoms of suffocation during 'agonizing' death from new drug)
Here's a wild tip: there's no way McGuire could have done anything if he were not still alive to do it. The guards are using the lowest, sleaziest excuse they can possibly find to cover their own incompetence. The drugs did, in fact, take that long to kill him and any idea that he was staying alive just to make some political point is some of the most depraved thinking I have ever heard. He was staying alive because he didn't want his heart to stop beating.
The reason this sort of thing has become an issue is that European Big Pharma is where the U.S. gets the drugs it needs to abuse for an execution but the Europeans have consciences and stopped selling the drugs once it was clear what the U.S. would do with them. The U.S. jails turned to other combinations of drugs and as well to lethal single doses of other drugs. Some are reputed to be using the same drugs used to put animals to sleep.
That the state can kill a man and not even have the balls to own it is pretty much typical of what America has become.
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