Ohio scraps all executions until 2017 over drug shortages, Why won't the FDA allow import of a more powerful sedative from overseas?

MSgt Curtis Ellis — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 21:55:27 -0400

Ohio has postponed all executions until 2017 because it cannot obtain the drugs it chose after a 2014 lethal injection using different chemicals had the inmate appearing to gasp for air.

The move comes a few months after the Food and Drug Administration warned the state it could not try to import a powerful sedative from overseas.

Ohio is just the latest state to face execution delays because of drug shortages that began when manufacturers were pressured to stop selling their products to prisons for the purpose of putting inmates to death.

In January 2014, the state used an experimental concoction — a mixture of midazolam and hydromorphone — to kill Dennis McGuire.

McGuire, who was convicted of raping and stabbing to death a pregnant woman, took 25 minutes to die and appeared to be gasping for breath at points, witnesses reported.

The state scrapped plans to use that combination in future executions and said inmates would be executed with either sodium thiopental or pentobarbital — which it has been unable to obtain.

Its failure to find a source means that Ronald Phillips — who had previously won a delay with a request to donate his organs — is having his execution date pushed back an entire year until Jan. 12, 2017. Phillips was convicted of raping and murdering a 3-year-old girl in 1993.

Ohio Scraps All Executions Until 2017 Over Drug Shortages

The state has been unable to obtain lethal injection drugs.

Response by LTC John Shaw made Oct 26 at 2015 10:13 PM

LTC John Shaw — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 22:13:32 -0400

MSgt Curtis Ellis FDA is part of the Federal govt agenda to stop all deaths by lethal injection. No drug producer wants to sell and face the liability of the decedent's estate/family members, even of a conflicted felon on death row.

Response by SFC Wade W. made Oct 26 at 2015 10:16 PM

SFC Wade W. — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 22:16:02 -0400

This is part of the community organizers plan to stop all executions in the USA. He said he was against executions during his first campaign but nobody listened and now he has found a way by using the FDA to stop the scheduled executions this year.

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 27 at 2015 1:36 AM

SSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 01:36:25 -0400

I do not care if McGuire suffered. He clearly is a sociopath. MSgt Curtis Ellis I am against it when evidence is solely circumstantial.

Response by CMSgt James Nolan made Oct 27 at 2015 2:02 AM

CMSgt James Nolan — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 02:02:35 -0400

How about the victims whose guts were hanging out after being stabbed, or the wife whose husband was shot in the head during a home invasion, or the father whose child was raped and murdered? Ask any of them what they think about a the convicted "taking a gasp". Pretty sure they would say "F@ck 'em".
Ok, no death penalty, how about you spend 23 hrs a day in a 6x6 box. No contact with anyone else. No exercise, MREs for food (good enough for our troops), no TV. Prison should suck. And, if you attack a guard, lethal force is authorized (hey, you were given a 2nd chance, and you failed).

Response by PO3 Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 27 at 2015 7:29 AM

PO3 Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 07:29:17 -0400

just hang them ... or firing squad ... or just with air into the blood stream .... it is not much pain involved. hanging just break their neck. firing squad need skilled man, air in blood stream? as fast and as painful as a massive deadly heart attack.