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Post by thinkinkmesa on Jan 27, 2014 20:41:42 GMT -5
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Jan 28, 2014 21:46:39 GMT -5
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Jan 29, 2014 22:50:03 GMT -5
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Jan 29, 2014 22:53:38 GMT -5
A Cruel and Unusual Death Ohio’s most recent execution raises questions about constitutionality and ethics CityBeat spoke with Jonathan Groner, a professor of clinical surgery at Ohio State University, who agrees that the use of these alternative drugs is problematic. “Barbiturates (like pentobarbital) are capable of rendering a person pretty deeply unconscious,” Groner says “That is less true of what was used in the McGuire execution.” Mydazolam is a sedative, used for relieving anxiety, and hydromorphone is a narcotic, which relieves pain, but is not an anesthetic, he says. “It seems that what McGuire got was not anesthetic,” Groner says. “What he got was a narcotic overdose. He died like heroin addicts die. He probably vomited, aspirated, choked, gasped and then died. It’s hard to know if he was rendered pain-free during the execution. Obviously, suffocating to death is painful, but we don’t know if he was that deeply comatose. I wouldn’t want what he got to have my appendix out. … I would be concerned that I would feel something.” Groner says there are multiple problems with the drugs given to McGuire and the Ohio lethal injection process in general: He says the person administering the drugs cannot be a doctor, since participating in a killing would violate the Hippocratic Oath. Executioners are anonymous and the process secretive, but Ohio likely uses a medic, Groner says, who may have familiarity with IV drugs but would not be nearly as proficient as an anesthesiologist. The person administering the IV does so from a separate room, and the use of these specific drugs risks an agonizing death. “The problem with lethal injection is the people who do it best aren’t allowed to,” Groner says. “It has the veneer of medical respectability, but, frankly, the Nazis used that veneer, too.” More; citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-29556-a_cruel_and_unusual_death.html |
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Feb 1, 2014 0:19:26 GMT -5
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Feb 18, 2014 19:39:40 GMT -5
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Apr 29, 2014 22:51:02 GMT -5
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Jul 11, 2014 21:55:59 GMT -5
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Jul 15, 2014 0:17:25 GMT -5
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Aug 17, 2014 9:47:06 GMT -5
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Dec 17, 2014 0:12:30 GMT -5
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Post by thinkinkmesa on Feb 3, 2015 21:21:13 GMT -5
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