Ohio
Formerly using the three drug cocktail to execute the inmates on death row, the state of Ohio will now use a single drug injection.
The first person that will receive the death penalty by this new one drug injection is Kenneth Biros, who was tried and convicted for the murder of 22-year-old Tami Engstrom in 1991.
Biros argues that the new method could cause severe pain, as it is said to take longer for the recipient to die.
Experts say that there will be no pain involved in the process of administering this new drug. From the St. Petersburg Times:
"The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction estimates it will take from 15 to 30 minutes for Biros to die, prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn said Tuesday.
“Every person’s body absorbs drugs and processes them differently, but we don’t really expect a demonstrative difference,” she said.
…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 finalized it."
Alright readers, I want feedback. Do you think this one drug injection will be just as effective as the three drug cocktail that 35 out of the 36 death penalty states use?
Comments
Well, since it has already been carried out, we know that he probably didn't suffer at all.
No doubt a post mortem will be carried out to confirm this.
I'm not sure this method hasn't been used on humans before. Voluntry Euthanasia has been carried out in europe for years - sufferes of terminal illneses have opted for this way of dying when they choose, and so avoid the pain that their condition may bring in later life. If I remember, they use a single drug for this - can't say which one though.
Yes, it will be as effective as the 3 drug protocol. Already has been, as we know.
The one drug protocol and the 3 drug protocol begin the same way, with the first drug being barbiturate, given in a dose large enough to kill, by itself.
Ohio did this just to avoid the nonsense of the alleged pain that MIGHT occur the 3 drug protocol. MIGHT.
Please review
Lethal Injection: Controversies Resolved
http(COLON)//homicidesurvivors(DOT)/2009/12/07/lethal-injection-controversies-resolved.aspx
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