Ohio man executed under new "set-to-die" procedure

[Old Coot]

Source: Reuters

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Ohio on Wednesday executed a convicted killer using a new procedure that required the prison warden to try to rouse the condemned man after an initial dose of sedatives to make sure he was unconscious for the subsequent injection of lethal drugs.

Daniel Wilson, 39, was executed at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville on Wednesday morning, officials said.

While lethal injection is by far the most common method of execution in the United States, Ohio's use of it was called into question in 2006 after a man who was supposed to be unconscious suddenly struggled and told his executioners the drugs were not working.

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Under the new Ohio protocol, the warden is required to call out the name of the condemned man, shake and pinch his shoulder, and then administer a second dose of sedative if there is a response. Officials said the new procedure was employed on Wednesday without incident.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE5525HD20090603

[Richard D]

1. Barbaric in it's civility.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

10. That's a perfect description.

[Mika]

2. Ironing out some of the glitches in the US killing machine.

:puke:

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[sharp_stick]

3. We sure do try to make this clean now don't we?

Are they so afraid of what they do in prisons that they have to pretend it's some sort of medical procedure? At least in the past they didn't try to hide the nasty nature of the death penalty behind glass, under a sheet on a hospital gurney.

[mitchum]

4. On the bright side, he wasn't burned alive

[Hepburn]

5. Gawd....

....how disgusting: "Set to Die"...:puke:... the use of a "cutesy" name for this just adds to the insanity.

[Chulanowa]

6. Well...

Okay, first off, I'm staunchly against the death penalty in all cases. Too many things go wrong even before the execution, oftentimes all the way back to the arrest. As long as our justice system is imperfect, the death penalty has no place in it.

That said... Why keep bothering with the secondary dose? I mean... really. Just fill him up with sedatives until his body shuts down. "Well, we're going to keep using hte pain cocktail, but we're going to knock 'em out first!"

it makes zero sense.

[Tim01]

14. I totally agree.

Give him 10 times as much pain killer as needed. What? Are they concerned they will kill him before they can give him the poison?

[imdjh]

7. It's still a bad thing.

The death penalty. I don't buy into that shit of the injections being painful- I object to the act. I don't object to the act because there aren't people who deserve to be executed- I have a list in my head too long to speak in a single breath. I object because you can't correct your errors with the death penalty. You can't give a person back 20 years of their life either, and many of those found innocent were not innocent people, but 20 years and death are not the same. Many of them were scumbags who just didn't happen to commit the one crime they were sentenced to death for. But as long as there is a possibility that a person could be innocent, then death is unacceptable.

But this will pass. We can never prove that DP is cruel, because the word has no fixed meaning, but very soon as more and more of the civilized countries of the world ban the DP, it will be unquestionably unusual. Then it must be done away with as unconstitutional.

[SCantiGOP]

8. humane execution

makes about as much sense as rules of war. You can kill a prisoner, but can't make him suffer. You can kill all the enemy soldiers you want, but you can't use weapons intended to purposely maim them. Too bad there's not something like a religion that would say "You shall not kill people."

[Qot]

9. Who cares if he burned a woman alive? He must have had mental issues

Execution is not the answer!

[EFerrari]

16. When your brain has all the finesse of a hammer, everything looks like a nail. n/t

[Chulanowa]

17. I know you're being facetious, but you're uninentionally speaking truth

Murdering a murderer does not bring his victims back to life. Nor does it "remove him from society" - that was already achieved via incarceration. Regardless of how flashy his crime is - and yes, I said flashy, because it does not matter how a person is murdered, dead is dead, the only difference is how much of an orgy the media gets to have over the corpse - killing him accomplishes nothing.

[OhioChick]

11. Gov. Strickland (D) Rejects Condemned Killer's Mercy Request

Elyria Man Asks U.S. Supreme Court For Execution Delay

POSTED: 12:26 pm EDT June 1, 2009
UPDATED: 1:29 pm EDT June 1, 2009

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has rejected clemency for a condemned killer who locked a woman in a car trunk and burned her alive.

Strickland on Monday turned down the request for mercy from Daniel Wilson, scheduled to die Wednesday for the 1991 death of Carol Lutz in Elyria.

Wilson's attorney Daniel Doughten said he got the call from Strickland's office Monday morning.

Strickland said he and his staff reviewed evidence, judicial decisions, Wilson’s application for clemency, as well as arguments for and against the request by the Lorain County Prosecutor and Wilson’s attorneys.

"We have also reviewed photographs, videos, letters and emails received in the Governor's Office from Mr. Wilson's family and others regarding this matter, and the unanimous recommendation against clemency forwarded to me by the Ohio Parole Board on May 8, 2009," Strickland said.

"Based on this review, I have decided to deny Mr. Wilson's application for executive clemency," Strickland said.

More: http://www.newsnet5.com/news/19623168/detail.html

[brentspeak]

12. He deserved his execution n/t

[OhioChick]

13. Agreed. n/t

[EFerrari]

15. Someday the United States will join the civilized nations of the world

in repudiating murder by the state.

[Endangered Specie]

18. Which nations do you consider 'civilized'...

some 'civilized' nations have quite colorful histories, well beyond the usual suspects.

[Mind_your_head]

19. :shudder:

Killin' should never be "easy".

That's a quote from "somewhere".....Nevertheless, it's "TRUE". Killing should NEVER be easy.

[Canuckistanian]

20. Why not put them in a big jar and throw in cotton balls soaked with ether?

It works for frogs in biology class.