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New Execution Method Is Used in Ohio

Saying he was now ?paroled to my Father in heaven,? a convicted killer in Ohio on Tuesday became the first person in the United States to be executed with a one-drug intravenous lethal injection.The new method, which involved a large dose of anesthetic, akin to how animals are euthanized, has been hailed by most experts as painless and an improvement over the three-drug cocktail used in all other states that employ lethal injection, but it is unlikely to settle the debate over the death penalty.While praising the shift to a single drug, death penalty opponents argue that Ohio?s new method, and specifically its backup plan of using intramuscular injection if the authorities are unable to find a usable vein, has not been properly vetted by legal and medical experts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on December 09, 2009 (boomark / email).