Ohio Plans to Try Again as Execution Goes Wrong

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Source: New York Times

CINCINNATI — The State of Ohio plans to try again next week to execute a convicted rapist-murderer, after a team of technicians spent two hours on Tuesday in an unsuccessful effort to inject him with lethal drugs.

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The only similar case in modern times, Mr. Dieter said, occurred in Louisiana in 1946, when electric shock failed to kill a convicted murderer, Willie Francis. He was electrocuted the next year, after the United States Supreme Court ruled that executing a prisoner in the wake of a failed first attempt was constitutional.

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Mr. Broom was convicted of the 1984 abduction, rape and killing of Tryna Middleton, 14, who had been walking home from a football game in Cleveland with two friends.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/us/17ohio.html?hp

[Hawkeye-X]

1. I think the Supreme Court should step in.. citing 'cruel and unusual' punishment

beacuse if the execution goes wrong again, then WHAT?

[DavidDvorkin]

2. Not this Supreme Court

Scalia might want to watch.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Time to buy shares of Johnson & Johnson

Tony will make hand lotion sales go through the roof.

[saigon68]

18. WATCH ? Hell NO that SCUMBAG

Would put a burning cigar on dudes chest and sing Oh Solo Mio

[greengestalt]

4. Well, God D-mn AmeriKKKa then!

Serious,

Even the vilified Taliban recognize the ancient tradition that if a man is to be executed and somehow he survives the ordeal (rope breaks, he recovers, the guns jam) it's a sign from Allah/God that he was not destined to die today. Therefore, he is not only not executed, he is to be released.


And they follow through on this. Such as when they found two Homosexuals who, btw, were witnessed by four men in the act of Sodomy. They put them at one side of a brick wall and had a bulldozer push down the wall. Except they crawled out from under the rubble and though they needed hospital treatment (one broken arm, or such) they survived. They then didn't try to execute them again because it would violate Allah/God's will. Presumably, the "Afghan Village People" kept it indoors from then on.


Executing a person after a failed attempt is murder.

[Pavulon]

5. Not really us case law or tradition to uphold that.

if it was we would execute people by some method with no survival. Like guillotine or gas chamber.

[AusDem]

6. um, just simply executing a person is murder

trying again after a failed attempt is just stupid

[liquid diamond]

7. Murder is the UNLAWFUL taking of a life!

It does not apply to a justified execution. This guy deserves to die at the hands of the state. How about showing some sympathy for the victim's family?

[harmonicon]

9. sympathy and revenge are not the same (nt)

[WriteDown]

13. Neither is justice. nt

[NYC Liberal]

12. So do you support torture?

[Bill McBlueState]

16. "This guy deserves to die at the hands of the state."

That's an opinion that's far from universal.

[JeanGrey]

11. When the girl he raped and murdered walks free,

I'll agree with you.

[The Stranger]

15. This post . . . boggles the mind.

The mind . . . it boggles.

[proteus_lives]

8. Well, Mr. Boom earned his fate.

No tears or shirt-rending here. If they can't find a vein then they should breakout the noose and scaffold.

[WillParkinson]

10. Of course he did...

Because no jury verdict was ever found to be wrong.

I'm sorry, I just don't think that capital punishment is right. You cannot ever go back an apologize to someone who was mistakenly killed by an execution.

[FedUpWithIt All]

14. Reading the article made me ill. The DP is abhorrent to me.

I do not think that killing should be viewed as anything other than what it is. Killing as retaliation is primitive. As a society we will continue to deal with the consequences of the baseness in our social fabric if we persist in allowing our policies and justice to be set to such a low standard.

[Bo]

17. I agree with you all the way

...I also still do not understand how ANYONE can be "Pro life" yet Pro death penalty...it just boggles the mind.

[mitchum]

19. Maybe they could distract Broom with a naked dead teenage girl

take his mind off the ordeal