A person sentenced to death was execute, Thursday, in Lucasville, Ohio, by lethal injection of a drug cocktail that had never been tested before. Dennis McGuire, age 53, convicted of rape and murder in 1989 of a young pregnant woman, was pronounced dead at 10:53 (16:53 pm French time), according to a spokesperson for the prison authorities. According to the new Protocol of that State, he was executed by injection of the sedative midazolam and Painkiller hydromorphone, where the mixture was never used in the United States.
Like other U.S. States, Ohio changed its procedure for executions after the refusal of European manufacturers to provide for supreme punishment, the anaesthetic employee so far. The injection began at 10.29 24 minutes before the time at which his death has been pronounced, according to the local daily Columbus Dispatch reporter. It was, according to the pool of journalists who attended the execution, the longest run since Ohio reinstated the death penalty in 1999.
Choking sounds that lasted at least ten minutes
"10 H 33, McGuire began to wrestle and Pant heavily, producing sneezing and choking sounds that lasted at least ten minutes, the fist tight pulling the chest. A long and deep rattle came out of his mouth", the local press reported. His lawyers claimed that McGuire would die of asphyxiation by a phenomenon of 'lack of air' and have "a cruel and unusual punishment" prohibited by the Constitution. But all appeals of the convicted person, until the supreme Court of the United States, had been rejected.
The graces of Ohio Office also denied his clemency, followed by Governor John Kasich, who in the past has commuted four death sentences and expressed reservations about the death penalty. A federal judge in Ohio, Gregory Frost, found that "the evidence had not been made before this Court that McGuire had a substantial risk to experience severe pain", according to the court document.
The second execution in unusual suffering
The three executions carried out this year, it was the second that, driving new products, appears to have occurred in unusual suffering. January 9 in Oklahoma, the sentenced to death Michael Lee Wilson let go, in his last words on the execution table: "I feel my whole body burn", then the intravenous injection had already begun, according to a spokesman for the prison authorities, Jerry Massie.
Oklahoma also had to find another supplier for its lethal injections. They had obtained the barbiturate pentobarbital, commonly used to euthanize animals, with a demonstrator in pharmacy. But this type of pharmaceutical companies are placed under the authority of the States and not the Federal law governing major laboratories. Therefore, their products are not approved by the federal drug agency. A scandal had erupted in November 2012 when one of these Massachusetts dispensaries had been deemed responsible for an outbreak of deadly meningitis due to lack of hygiene.
"If there is length and disturbing descriptions of execution of Dennis McGuire, and considering the many complications on the lethal injection reported in other States, it seems that procedures for lethal injections in this country are more scandalous and problematic than ever before," said Deborah Denno, an expert of the death penalty at the Fordham University law school.
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Like other U.S. States, Ohio changed its procedure for executions after the refusal of European manufacturers to provide for supreme punishment, the anaesthetic employee so far. The injection began at 10.29 24 minutes before the time at which his death has been pronounced, according to the local daily Columbus Dispatch reporter. It was, according to the pool of journalists who attended the execution, the longest run since Ohio reinstated the death penalty in 1999.
Choking sounds that lasted at least ten minutes
"10 H 33, McGuire began to wrestle and Pant heavily, producing sneezing and choking sounds that lasted at least ten minutes, the fist tight pulling the chest. A long and deep rattle came out of his mouth", the local press reported. His lawyers claimed that McGuire would die of asphyxiation by a phenomenon of 'lack of air' and have "a cruel and unusual punishment" prohibited by the Constitution. But all appeals of the convicted person, until the supreme Court of the United States, had been rejected.
The graces of Ohio Office also denied his clemency, followed by Governor John Kasich, who in the past has commuted four death sentences and expressed reservations about the death penalty. A federal judge in Ohio, Gregory Frost, found that "the evidence had not been made before this Court that McGuire had a substantial risk to experience severe pain", according to the court document.
The second execution in unusual suffering
The three executions carried out this year, it was the second that, driving new products, appears to have occurred in unusual suffering. January 9 in Oklahoma, the sentenced to death Michael Lee Wilson let go, in his last words on the execution table: "I feel my whole body burn", then the intravenous injection had already begun, according to a spokesman for the prison authorities, Jerry Massie.
Oklahoma also had to find another supplier for its lethal injections. They had obtained the barbiturate pentobarbital, commonly used to euthanize animals, with a demonstrator in pharmacy. But this type of pharmaceutical companies are placed under the authority of the States and not the Federal law governing major laboratories. Therefore, their products are not approved by the federal drug agency. A scandal had erupted in November 2012 when one of these Massachusetts dispensaries had been deemed responsible for an outbreak of deadly meningitis due to lack of hygiene.
"If there is length and disturbing descriptions of execution of Dennis McGuire, and considering the many complications on the lethal injection reported in other States, it seems that procedures for lethal injections in this country are more scandalous and problematic than ever before," said Deborah Denno, an expert of the death penalty at the Fordham University law school.
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