Ohio new execution method causes suffering: death row inmate

[JURIST] Attorneys for death row inmate Dennis McGuire on Tuesday filed for a stay of execution in the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio [official website], claiming that Ohio's untried execution method would cause McGuire to experience a suffocation-like syndrome known as air hunger. McGuire's execution was scheduled for January 16 after being found guilty [AP report] of the 1989 rape and fatal stabbing of Joy Stewart. A shortage of Ohio's former execution drug, pentobarbital, has forced...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/01/ohio-new-execution-method-causes-suffering-death-row-inmate.php

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