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American state changes the way it executes prisoners... so that they die more slowly

 
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American state changes the way it executes prisoners... so that they die more slowly
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Condemned killer Kenneth Biros could become the first person in America executed with a single dose of an intravenous anaesthetic if his execution proceeds tomorrow.

Usually a three-drug process is used when administering lethal injections, which is faster-acting.

The execution could propel other states to eventually consider the switch, which advocates say ends arguments over unnecessary suffering during injection.

California and Tennessee previously considered, then rejected the one-drug approach.

Though the untested method has never been used on an inmate in the U.S., one difference is clear: Biros is likely to die more slowly than inmates executed with the three-drug method, which includes a drug that stops the heart.

Lethal injection experts on both sides of the debate say thiopental sodium, which kills by putting people so deeply asleep they stop breathing, will take longer.

How much longer is unclear. Mark Dershwitz, an anaesthesiologist who advised Ohio on its switch to the single drug, has written that death should occur in under 15 minutes.

Ohio inmates have typically taken about seven minutes to die after the three-drug IV injection, which combines thiopental sodium with the drugs pancuronium bromide - which paralyzes muscles - and potassium chloride, which causes cardiac arrest.


Dershwitz also said in a court filing last week that a single dose of thiopental sodium would take longer than the three drugs, although he didn't specify how long.

The switch from three drugs to one was ordered last month because of the state's botched attempt on September 15 to execute convicted rapist and killer Romell Broom.

His executioners tried unsuccessfully for two hours to find a usable vein for injection, painfully hitting bone and muscle in as many as 18 attempts.

Governor Ted Strickland halted the execution.

Broom, 53, has appealed the state's attempt to try again.

Ohio officials contend the single-drug method should end a five-year-old lawsuit against the state that claims injection can cause inmates severe suffering.

The switch from three drugs to one was ordered after the state's botched attempt to execute Romell Broom

Lethal injection experts and defence lawyers for death row inmates have said the one-drug method, a single dose of an anaesthetic, would not cause pain.

Biros, 51, killed 22-year-old Tami Engstrom near Warren in 1991 after offering to drive her home from a bar, then scattered her body parts in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

All 36 death penalty states use lethal injection, and 35 rely on the three-drug method.

Nebraska, which recently adopted injection over electrocution, has proposed the three-drug method but hasn't finalised the process.

States with active death chambers are keeping an eye on Ohio's switch but have no immediate plans to follow suit. Florida, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia are among those keeping the three-drug system for now.

'Virginia's method has been successfully used in over 75 executions and repeatedly been upheld as constitutionally acceptable,' state prisons spokesman Larry Traylor said on Friday.

States will most likely watch what happens in Ohio and the court challenges before making a decision, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.

The U.S. Supreme Court said last year that states would only have to change the three-drug process if an alternative method lessened the possibility of pain.

Defence lawyers have also supported the one-drug option, reducing the possibility of legal challenges, Dieter said.

If Ohio is successful 'in making this transition, and if a few other states follow that lead, I think we will see the majority of states changing to this method of lethal injection,' Dieter said.

Biros' attorneys want his execution delayed, saying the new untested method
has never been used in 'any other civilized country' and would amount to human experimentation.

But the same lawyers earlier advocated for the state to switch to the one-drug method.

The state 'could and should shift to a one-drug protocol designed to cause death by means of an overdose of an anaesthetic,' John Parker, one of Biros' attorneys, said in a court filing last year.

Doctors conducting euthanasia in Europe administer thiopental sodium but also usually add pancuronium bromide.

Ohio has executed 32 men by injection since 1999, three of them with complications.

In 2006, executioners needed more than an hour to put inmate Joseph Clark to death after the drugs initially failed to work because of problems with his veins.

In 2007, executioners took several minutes to find a usable vein on inmate Christopher Newton because of his large size, and he then took 15 minutes to die, twice as long as normal.

The state says this history supports Ohio's success with injections: 'in over thirty executions, Ohio has encountered difficulties three times, and only on one occasion has it been necessary to postpone the execution,' Charles Wille, an assistant Ohio Attorney General, said on Friday.
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Re: American state changes the way it executes prisoners... so that they die more slowly
go back to hanging people as rope is cheap.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
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Re: American state changes the way it executes prisoners... so that they die more slowly
Because suppressed technologies of behavioral enhancement have eliminated obsolete and invalid methods such as this imposed so called humane 13th century nightmare of execution, no one should be executed or even sent to prisons.

We live in a culture of brainwashing, and debilitation, imposed by elites. You wonder why school was boring do you? Because it was planned that way. One room school houses were far less boring, and far less antisocial.

You are bombarded with messages of violence far exceeding the common experience. As a result hypnotized people think it is an alternative, it is a way to get through living. These messages result in a socialization of violence through the military, or otherwise the antisocial criminal. The general public is also brainwashed by violence, and favors the death penalty.

If these psychologists of mass media can create a violent society, they can also create a more peaceful an productive one. The elite will not even consider it, since they profit by the existing system of violence. It keeps people down, and that amplifies their class system, and increases the need for external security. War is extremely profitable, so what if their brainwashing process creates a few criminals?

This is a very sad world, however it is mostly populated by good human beings. A society that treats people badly, cannot expect anything close to good results.
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"Two systems are before the world.... One looks to pauperism, ignorance, depopulation, and barbarism; the other to increasing wealth, comfort, intelligence, combination of action, and civilization. One looks towards universal war; the other towards universal peace. One is the English system; the other ... the American system, for ... elevating while equalizing the condition of man throughout the world."

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