this is a story about a man named Dennis McGuire Dennis McGuire
was killed last night by the state of Ohio a
took him 15 minutes to die
by the way I'm sorry he was not killed last night was killed today
Thursday his date of death her January 16th 2014
the Dennis McGuire is is not a guy who were
anybody who you care about would have much sympathy for
in 1989 he owed
sexually assaulted raped killed a pregnant woman
arm so I don't
you know only enjoy store
that one might objections to the death penalty is that it makes me feel some
degree
have sympathy for guys who I don't wanna waste my time
feeling sympathy for but I'm sympathetic toward him because he was executed by
a government in the United States of America and I was ball was
for brought up led to believe that the government in the United States came and
saved you at the end
didn't kill you but they killed that is big wire in they killed in with the new
mixture of drugs in Ohio because the previous make sure the pharmaceutical
company that provides the previous mixture
a didn't provide the mixture anymore
to Ohio because there against the death penalty so they came up
with a couple of new drugs here and at
in the end it took Dennis wire 15 minutes to die
today the day was executed and here Murray low but from the story from the
Associated Press which of course has no position on capital punishment just
reporting
up what happened first in attempting
to halt his execution ahead of time but requires attorneys
had argued last week he was at substantial risk give agony
and terror that was the phrase they used in the court filings well stray need to
catch his breath the
as he experienced a medical phenomenon known as air hunger
but the judge rejected that Ohio officials used
intravenous doses at to drugs a sedative and a painkiller
to put mcguire death today for the rape I
his adult children with their a sobbing at mcguire before he left
thank the family enjoy Stewart the woman who killed in 1989 for their kind words
in a letter that he apparently received from them I'm reading from the
Associated Press story but then
The Associated Press goes on to describe the execution
the choir opened and shut
his left hand as if waving to his daughter
son and daughter-in-law more than a minute later he raised himself up
looked in the direction of his family and said I love you
I love you McGuire was still
for almost five minutes the report goes on
then admitted a loud snort as if
me he were snoring and continued to make that sound over the next several minutes
he also sound asleep open and shut his mouth several times as his stomach
rose and fell oh my god
his daughter amber maguire said she observes her father's final moments
coughing sound was does requires last apparent movement The Associated Press
says at 10:43 this morning he was pronounced dead ten minutes later at
10:53
from I just
I don't see how we can read that in this country in
feel comfortable executing people job
it's very clear that he suffered I nothing strikes me more than reading
that
and try telling me that that doesn't meet anyone standard of cruel
and unusual it it's the most unusual thing that ever happened to him
and incredibly unusual moment and seems very clearly cruel
if we wanna go killing people in this country that we think is the right way
to mete out justice in serious cases like the one
involving this woman like the murder of joy store then
we all should this guy that or use a guillotine that we know a sharp although
as we know from other countries sometimes the gettin is shown up
drop off doesn't go all the way down and that obviously
would meet our standard group I imagine that if we have four or five people
shoot a guy in the head
he died very quickly and that would be the end to that
his pace would be maimed and Mangold in
could really have an open casket funeral maybe if you're on death row you
you lose that right but he'd be dead but we don't want you people anymore because
we feel weird about shooting people
which given the frequency with which we should
innocent people in this country seems be kill your
but the 1i the death penalty the let's just go ahead and show people in the
head
get a buncha guys in the room and like take five or six shots this had to be
dead in a sec
there's no way around it so the guys can shoot it is art
let's just go Bonnie and Clyde on when that'll ended quickly although
that it happened instead of this system which we thought would somehow
sanitize it but it ends up being barbaric
and I don't think we ought to sanitize it anyway even if this work if you took
some pill you were dead in a sec it
I don't think the States killing
up someone ought to be sanitized and frequently
depending on your definition of the word frequently we know that sometimes the
state
kills the wrong guy we certainly know the state let's guys
out on death row a as many states have
because because they had the wrong at
so they didn't have the wrong guy here by all accounts he killed
Joyce toward he he his lawyers at
made the case that he'd been sexually abused as a child
no one seems to as near as I can tell be disputing that but whether that counts
as mitigation to avoid the death sentence
I've no idea I don't need medication for the death sentence that never would give
it to him in the first place
about soft on crime either I know a lot of other people who are very strongly
anti-doping leon on are soft on crime either we think somebody who commits
crime like this are go to prison rest their life without the possibility of
parole
but should we uncover some sort of mistake in the case
we can rectify it and he would anyway get the opportunity to live in prison
and we wouldn't be the kind of country the goes and kills people