Friday, January 13, 2017

Ohio Wins Latest Round of Death Penalty Depravity

Ohio is trying to order drugs which can be used to reverse the drugs being used for an execution if the executioner decides they're not going to work.  (Seattle Times:  Ohio seeks drug to reverse lethal injections)

That's just prime, isn't it.

Flumazenil is used to reverse the effects of a sedative called midazolam when that drug causes bad reactions in patients.

Midazolam is the first drug in Ohio’s new three-drug execution method.

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'Bad reactions in patients?'  They aim to fucking kill him.  How much worse can the reaction possibly be.

Executions have been on hold in Ohio since January 2014, when Dennis McGuire gasped and snorted during the 26 minutes it took him to die, the longest execution since the state resumed putting prisoners to death in 1999.

The state used a two-drug method with McGuire, starting with midazolam, its first use for executions in the country.

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No way a little problem like that was going to stop them and they still want to use it.


You will love the language the executioner wants to use:

“Governor, I am not confident that we, in fact, can achieve a successful execution. I want to reverse the effects of this,” Mohr, Director of the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, testified.

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In English, 'we are in the middle of one hell's-firing clusterfuck and we're torturing this inmate.'


Columbus surgeon Jonathan Groner, a lethal injection expert, said past problems with Ohio executions have come about because executioners didn’t properly connect the IVs.

A reversal drug will not help with that problem, and could make it worse — if the IV is not in the vein, giving more drugs may cause more pain,” Groner said.

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There's no need for any editorial except this:  fuckin' people.

2 comments:

Cadillac Man said...

Then Jesus said "Father forgive them for they know not what they are doing." Luke 23:34

Unknown said...

Fair enough. When we see something so horrifying, I'm not sure there's any other way to resolve it.