01-19-2014, 03:22 PM
Okay, read up on McGuire's family's planned law suit.
It doesn't appear to involve any monetary compensation.
They have joined forces with a bunch of anti death penalty advocates to sue the state of Ohio for "cruel and unusual punishment" so that other death penalty inmates aren't subject to the same method of execution.
Whether or not McGuire was suffering pain or was instead experiencing involuntary body movements is unknown, but may be more clear when his autopsy is complete.
The European Union's refusal to supply the US with the previous death drug any longer (in opposition to the death penalty) has given defense attorneys, killers and their families, and death penalty opponents ammunition to file lots of legal motions attempting to stay executions and now to challenge the constitutionality of future executions.
Personally, I think death by drug injection, even if the killers suffer some pain or discomfort, is not cruel and unusual. How humane should we attempt to be when putting to death people who've brutally raped and killed others?
It doesn't appear to involve any monetary compensation.
They have joined forces with a bunch of anti death penalty advocates to sue the state of Ohio for "cruel and unusual punishment" so that other death penalty inmates aren't subject to the same method of execution.
Whether or not McGuire was suffering pain or was instead experiencing involuntary body movements is unknown, but may be more clear when his autopsy is complete.
The European Union's refusal to supply the US with the previous death drug any longer (in opposition to the death penalty) has given defense attorneys, killers and their families, and death penalty opponents ammunition to file lots of legal motions attempting to stay executions and now to challenge the constitutionality of future executions.
Personally, I think death by drug injection, even if the killers suffer some pain or discomfort, is not cruel and unusual. How humane should we attempt to be when putting to death people who've brutally raped and killed others?