DEATH ROW--death penalty in America

[HairOfTheDog]

This winner and his attorneys fought hard to stay his execution using the rationale that the new combo of death drugs to be used was unproven and essentially there could be some pain and time involved from injection to death. Boo hoo.

Dennis McGuire, 58, was executed Thursday for the 1989 rape and murder of 22-year-old Joy Stewart.

Ohio adopted the use of the sedative and painkiller after supplies of its previous execution drug dried up when its European manufacturer put it off limits for capital punishment.

It took more than 15 minutes for the condemned Ohio killer to die from a lethal injection process never before tried in the U.S., according to news reports.

McGuire appeared to gasp several times during his prolonged execution and made several loud snorting or snoring sounds after being injected with the two-drug combination of the sedative midazolam and the painkiller hydromorphone. His stomach rose and fell several times as he repeatedly opened and shut his mouth.

Certainly, Joy Stewart died a much less peaceful death than did her killer.