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Bid to halt US 'vein' execution Follow

#1 Sep 17 2009 at 9:13 PM Rating: Excellent
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Lawyers for a US man on death row say they will try to halt a second attempt at his execution by lethal injection.

On Tuesday the execution of murderer and rapist Romell Broom was called off and delayed for a week after Ohio state officials failed to find a vein.

His lawyers demanded that the procedure be stopped after two hours, describing it as "cruel".

They say that as he survived it would amount to "cruel and unusual punishment" to try again.

Lawyer Tim Sweeney said Broom had "sustained both physical and mental injuries" during the attempt. Witnesses said he had been distressed and appeared to cry.

He told his lawyers he had been pricked by the needle up to 18 times, the Associated Press news agency reports.

"It's going to take time for all the psychic trauma to dissipate," said Mr Sweeney.

"Even if it never goes away, I think it's wrong to try to do it again so quickly in these circumstances."

Rare reprieve

Romell Broom has been sentenced to die for the rape and murder of 14-year-old Tryna Middleton in 1984.

The execution is now scheduled to take place on Thursday but Mr Sweeney said that would be unconstitutional.

Julie Walburn, a spokeswoman for the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, said officials were monitoring how much Broom was drinking, as a lack of fluid could make veins hard to find.

But she said there was no evidence this had been the case the first time, reported AP.

Ms Walburn told Reuters that officials were in "unchartered territory".

Broom was granted a week-long reprieve by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, the first such action by an Ohio governor since the state resumed executions in 1999.

Ohio has executed 32 inmates since then.

Several executions were delayed for at least an hour because officials had failed to properly attach intravenous tubes for the lethal injection.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8262092.stm

My question is who the hell cares? the man is sentenced to death for a crime, so who cares if they caused pain while trying to find a vein.
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He told his lawyers he had been pricked by the needle up to 18 times, the Associated Press news agency reports.

"It's going to take time for all the psychic trauma to dissipate," said Mr Sweeney.

"Even if it never goes away, I think it's wrong to try to do it again so quickly in these circumstances."

that made me laugh, I smell a lawsuit claiming the victim suffered mental anguish while being prepared for his death sentence to be carried out and wants 5 million from the state for his suffering.

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On Tuesday the execution of murderer and rapist Romell Broom was called off and delayed for a week after Ohio state officials failed to find a vein.
Send him to TX we will have it over and done with faster than pizza hut delivers pizza.
#2 Sep 17 2009 at 9:20 PM Rating: Good
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My question is who the hell cares? the man is sentenced to death for a crime, so who cares if they caused pain while trying to find a vein.


I know right? Lethal injection is for pussies anyway. What we ought to do is impale him on a blunt but extremely hot spit, disembowel him and take out all of the other goopy bits along with the intestines to sell to McDonalds, roast him, flay his skin off of him while he is still conscious, attach electrodes to his genitals to keep him aware during the process (improves the meat quality), then eventually salt and eat his freshly cooked body; if you videotape the entire process you can market it as both educational anatomy as well as **** for a good six or so fetish markets.

Because who cares?
#3 Sep 17 2009 at 9:22 PM Rating: Good
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My question is who the hell cares? the man is sentenced to death for a crime, so who cares if they caused pain while trying to find a vein.


I know right? Lethal injection is for pussies anyway. What we ought to do is impale him on a blunt but extremely hot spit, disembowel him and take out all of the other goopy bits along with the intestines to sell to McDonalds, roast him, flay his skin off of him while he is still conscious, attach electrodes to his genitals to keep him aware during the process (improves the meat quality), then eventually salt and eat his freshly cooked body; if you videotape the entire process you can market it as both educational anatomy as well as **** for a good six or so fetish markets.

Because who cares?


What are you, ******* stupid or something?


I mean.. it'll be marketable to 3 fetish markets, tops.
#4 Sep 17 2009 at 9:28 PM Rating: Good
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Vore, torture, restraint, cross-section, ero-guro, electricity.
#5 Sep 17 2009 at 11:16 PM Rating: Good
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Well, we certainly did to him what he did to her. Where's our vomit smiley?

I'm starting to think that while the death penalty is existent, we'd better go with a freaking guillotine, or something similar. Jesus.
#6 Sep 18 2009 at 12:56 AM Rating: Decent
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Maybe they could legislate to introduce a new type of death penalty.

The 'pin cushion'.

Just keep going, eventually he'll die.
#7 Sep 18 2009 at 2:21 AM Rating: Good
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Maybe they could legislate to introduce a new type of death penalty.

The 'pin cushion'.

Just keep going, eventually he'll die.

Didn't he get enough of that while sitting on death row?
#8 Sep 18 2009 at 3:57 AM Rating: Good
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Goggy wrote:
Maybe they could legislate to introduce a new type of death penalty.

The 'pin cushion'.

Just keep going, eventually he'll die.

Oh! oh! oh! there's a short story about that... Was ii Jorge Luis Borgez or that Metamorphosis guy, Franz Kafka? There's an island, and on the island the death penalty is administered by a machine that uses needles to write your crime in your flesh until you die of the flaying. Something like that! Ah yes The Penal Settlement, by Franz Kafka.

Edited, Sep 18th 2009 7:57am by Aripyanfar
#9 Sep 18 2009 at 5:22 AM Rating: Decent
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Why halt it? Just use a different form of execution, for his crime, a double guillotine maybe, simultaneously cut off his head and diCk. I'm all for supposed "cruel and unusual punishment" for the specific type of crime he committed.
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#10 Sep 18 2009 at 5:24 AM Rating: Good
**** first, that way you have a true moment of suffering.
#11 Sep 18 2009 at 5:35 AM Rating: Default
Public firing squads.
#12 Sep 18 2009 at 6:03 AM Rating: Good
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Public firing squads

needle without the sedative. The aim here is to go as slow and painful as possible considering since he is whining about them poking him 20 times trying to find the vein.
#13 Sep 18 2009 at 6:15 AM Rating: Decent
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Public firing squads


Why not? That would help deter people from murdering and raping children. "If you rape a child, you'll be shot multiple times simultaneously in front of a crowd, and they won't give you a blindfold or a cigarette!".


No...seriously, I approve public firing squads as an acceptable punsihment for killing and raping a child.
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#14 Sep 18 2009 at 6:25 AM Rating: Excellent
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Why not? That would help deter people from murdering and raping children. "If you rape a child, you'll be shot multiple times simultaneously in front of a crowd, and they won't give you a blindfold or a cigarette!".


No...seriously, I approve public firing squads as an acceptable punsihment for killing and raping a child.


The death penalty sure is an effective deterrent.

Just kidding, it's not.
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#15 Sep 18 2009 at 6:32 AM Rating: Decent
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Clearly sitting in jail for one's entire life with the possibility of getting out even when it's technically not supposed to be a possibility seems to be even less effective of a deterrant.
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#16 Sep 18 2009 at 6:38 AM Rating: Excellent
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No punishment is an effective deterrent, since no one ever thinks they're going to get caught.

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#17 Sep 18 2009 at 6:38 AM Rating: Good
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I'm still against the DP, for a dozen reasons, but if you're going to do it, do it fast and clean. Instantaneous as possible. Bullet up against the skull is starting to sound all kinds of reasonable, if injection is so bodgey a method. And no billing the families the cost of the bullet. Smiley: mad
#18 Sep 18 2009 at 6:41 AM Rating: Good
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No punishment is an effective deterrent, since no one ever thinks they're going to get caught.


Or they're swept up in the overwhelming emotion of the moment, or addictive impulse behaviour, that makes the concept of capture and punishment too far away and academic to counterbalance.
#19 Sep 18 2009 at 6:57 AM Rating: Excellent
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Sure, for whatever reason. Because they're young, because they're not smart, because they think they ARE smart, because they trust their accomplices, because they know that not all criminals are apprehended. There are always reasons for denying the obvious.

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#20 Sep 18 2009 at 8:03 AM Rating: Good
I'm pretty sure I could get away with murder. Sadly, there's no one I want to kill.

How zen.
#21 Sep 18 2009 at 8:04 AM Rating: Excellent
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I'm pretty sure I could get away with murder. Sadly, there's no one I want to kill.

How zen.


I'll fax you a list.

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#22 Sep 18 2009 at 8:13 AM Rating: Good
Funny, a lot of these names are on the list of Joph's ex-girlfriends Timelord sent me.

Unsolicited, of course.
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seems like a vein effort doomed to failure, but I support it.

We should shoot them instead. bullets are cheaper.
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#24 Sep 18 2009 at 8:59 AM Rating: Decent
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I'm all for supposed "cruel and unusual punishment" for the specific type of crime he committed.


I hope you are raped to death by a horde of children then, if we're talking about adequate pain inflicted for crimes.

It's only fair. Vindictive states of mind are quite dangerous, evil, and need to be punished.
#25 Sep 18 2009 at 9:55 AM Rating: Decent
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I hope you are raped to death by a horde of children

Pensive the Ludicrous wrote:
Vindictive states of mind are quite dangerous, evil, and need to be punished.


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#26 Sep 18 2009 at 11:04 AM Rating: Excellent
America is already slowly executing most of its populace. The fact that murderers and rapists are being put in the fast lane doesn't faze me.

When I lived in Louisiana I worked as the lead salesmen of the tech department of a national office supplies chain. One of the people that worked below me was very vocal about what his opinions where regarding anything that was current events. He told me it was because he was from Texas, where everyone has the right to speak the minds no matter what. I always attributed his excessive extroversion to a mild case of autism, but I digress.

One day over lunch, the local tv news was covering a Texas execution where the condemned was pleading that he was innocent and that the court didn't give him a fair trial. My coworker, as if on cue, opened his mouth and drawled, "I'd rather see a innocent man hang than let one guilty one get away." I gave him a few moments to see if he'd understand what he just implied... he didn't. "You realize that if an innocent man is executed, that means the guilty one went free, don't you?"

He looked at me for a second, "That doesn't make a licka sense!"




No. I guess in Texas it doesn't.



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