01-18-2014, 11:23 PM
Family of Dennis McGuire plan lawsuit against Ohio following yesterday's execution
The execution of an Ohio inmate who gasped and took an unusually long time to die was "torture," the man's daughter said Friday in announcing plans to file a lawsuit over her father's death.
McGuire's daughter, Amber McGuire, referred to the "agony and terror" of watching her father die on Thursday — using the same words the condemned man's attorneys used in trying to stop his execution using a previously untried method of lethal injection.
"It was the most awful moment in my life to witness my dad's execution," she said in a statement ahead of the news conference. "I can't think of any other way to describe it than torture."
The execution violated McGuire's constitutional right not to be treated or punished in a cruel or unusual way, said defense attorney Jon Paul Rion, representing McGuire's adult children.
McGuire's attorney Allen Bohnert called the convicted killer's death "a failed, agonizing experiment" and added: "The people of the state of Ohio should be appalled at what was done here today in their names."
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First question, Why was this asshole's son and daughter at his execution? I can see going to visit the scumbag before he dies, but who the hell wants to watch their father put to death? That's just weird and awful.
Secondly, I am in the camp of several commentators below the article. Any money given to McGuire's family for pain and suffering should be re-routed immediately to the family of his victim, Joy Stewart. The McGuires should not be allowed to profit from their father's crime.
Third, why the hell don't we do firing squad executions anymore? A bullet or two to the heart is almost instant, less invasive, and kinder to the executioners (and executed) than lethal injection.
The execution of an Ohio inmate who gasped and took an unusually long time to die was "torture," the man's daughter said Friday in announcing plans to file a lawsuit over her father's death.
McGuire's daughter, Amber McGuire, referred to the "agony and terror" of watching her father die on Thursday — using the same words the condemned man's attorneys used in trying to stop his execution using a previously untried method of lethal injection.
"It was the most awful moment in my life to witness my dad's execution," she said in a statement ahead of the news conference. "I can't think of any other way to describe it than torture."
The execution violated McGuire's constitutional right not to be treated or punished in a cruel or unusual way, said defense attorney Jon Paul Rion, representing McGuire's adult children.
McGuire's attorney Allen Bohnert called the convicted killer's death "a failed, agonizing experiment" and added: "The people of the state of Ohio should be appalled at what was done here today in their names."
Read more
First question, Why was this asshole's son and daughter at his execution? I can see going to visit the scumbag before he dies, but who the hell wants to watch their father put to death? That's just weird and awful.
Secondly, I am in the camp of several commentators below the article. Any money given to McGuire's family for pain and suffering should be re-routed immediately to the family of his victim, Joy Stewart. The McGuires should not be allowed to profit from their father's crime.
Third, why the hell don't we do firing squad executions anymore? A bullet or two to the heart is almost instant, less invasive, and kinder to the executioners (and executed) than lethal injection.