Ohio execution postponed after guards can't get IV started

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32878025/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

They spent two hours trying to set up the IV, including going in through his legs at one point.

One wonders if there's any other option. Seems as though this guy's veins just simply will not hold up.

 

Re: Ohio execution postponed after veins collapse

Yeah, the option is to realize this sort of stuff is barbaric, and cruel and unusual punishment, and then commute his sentence to life in prison w/o parole.

 

Re: Ohio execution postponed after veins collapse

How quickly can they get a firing squad together?

 

Re: Ohio execution postponed after veins collapse

Stop feeding him in a Terry Schiavo-esque manner.

 

Re: Ohio execution postponed after veins collapse

Did it say in the story "veins collapsed"? Did I miss that part?

 

Re: Ohio execution postponed after veins collapse

I read another story that said they got a line established at one point, but that it collapsed when they started a saline flow.

 

Firing squads can usually find a vein.

 

We must keep this man alive and get him back to full strength so that we can kill him.

 

Have they tried a plastic bag over the face?

 

That cracked me up.

 

I'm no death penalty proponent, but it was quite well-struck, I must agree.

 

a rope will collapse the wind pipe nicely