Ohio Killer Executed Using Controversial Drugs

Here you go, the unintended consequences of the left now attacking humane lethal injection.

States consider reviving old-fashioned executions

ST. LOUIS (AP) — With lethal-injection drugs in short supply and new questions looming about their effectiveness, lawmakers in some death penalty states are considering bringing back relics of a more gruesome past: firing squads, electrocutions and gas chambers.
Most states abandoned those execution methods more than a generation ago in a bid to make capital punishment more palatable to the public and to a judicial system worried about inflicting cruel and unusual punishments that violate the Constitution.
But to some elected officials, the drug shortages and recent legal challenges are beginning to make lethal injection seem too vulnerable to complications.
"This isn't an attempt to time-warp back into the 1850s or the wild, wild West or anything like that," said Missouri state Rep. Rick Brattin, who this month proposed making firing squads an option for executions. "It's just that I foresee a problem, and I'm trying to come up with a solution that will be the most humane yet most economical for our state."
Brattin, a Republican, said questions about the injection drugs are sure to end up in court, delaying executions and forcing states to examine alternatives. It's not fair, he said, for relatives of murder victims to wait years, even decades, to see justice served while lawmakers and judges debate execution methods.
Like Brattin, a Wyoming lawmaker this month offered a bill allowing the firing squad. Missouri's attorney general and a state lawmaker have raised the notion of rebuilding the state's gas chamber. And a Virginia lawmaker wants to make electrocution an option if lethal-injection drugs aren't available.
If adopted, those measures could return states to the more harrowing imagery of previous decades, when inmates were hanged, electrocuted or shot to death by marksmen..........................

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How psychopathic.

 

Wow, people say things like that and it makes me think, who is worse, the criminal or mayor snorkum? If the criminal does that to someone, he gets the death penalty. But if MS wants it done, it's justice.

What a royally (*)(*)(*)(*)ed up justice system we have when society can justify things such as this.

 

All medicaments used for those injections are regular drugs used in general anesthesia. If the producer boycots the USA to avoid his drugs being used in executions, that little problem already leading to a drug shortage in the USA, I ask myself how anesthesiologists in the USA perform their daily work.
For every drug like Thiopental mentioned in the introduction, there is a modern replacement (Thiopental and Pentobarbital are old drugs of the1950s). Those barbiturates today are replaced with either Propofol (di-iso-propyl-phenol) or benzo diazepines like flunitrazepam or the very short acting midazolam, which also is mentioned in the introduction. The "rule over the thumb in anesthesia" is however: there is not enough space in a human being to administer a lethal dose of one of those substances. The second drug having been used in the execution is a morphine. Morphine overdosage leads to something drug addicts call: "Golden Shot". Breathing frequencies of 2 -4 /min cfor 20 minutes, severe hypoxia, but happy smiling patients cursing at the emergency physician who can antagonize their delir in a split second. Some even survive that state without emergency physician, some don't and some survive with a permanent hypoxic brain damage. That drug is everything but a lethal execution drug. To my knowledge those substances are only administered to ease the suffering from the lethal muscle relaxant, paralysing the respiratory musculatur of the chest and diaphragme. That is the reasons why patients in anesthesia are on ventilators. Without ventilator they would die. To be sure to have killed somebody, a large dose of Potassium-Chloride is flushed behind the other ones, producing cardiac arrest. Potassium Chloride and muscle relaxants are penny drugs. It is impossible that there is a shortage anywhere. Concerning sedatives and pain killers: there are hundreds of others on the market. Nobody nowhere depends from a producer in Belgium.