Ohio officials insist Dennis McGuire execution 'worked very well'
Source: The Guardian
The state of Ohio has released its initial reports into the execution of Dennis McGuire last month using a previously untested two-drug lethal injection, in which it finds that the new protocol was properly implemented and that “the process worked very well”.
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Eyewitnesses in the death chamber reported that it took up to 26 minutes for McGuire to die, making it the longest execution in Ohio in modern times. The prisoner was seen to be gasping for air for up to 14 minutes in a procedure that one observer, Lawrence Hummer, described in the Guardian as horrendous and inhumane.
In a report written immediately after the execution, known as an “after-action review”, the warden of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility where the execution took place, Donald Morgan, writes that “the process worked very well and the execution was carried out in compliance with” the state’s death penalty protocol. In answer to the routine question, “Were there acts or events that were not anticipated in advance?” he replies: “No.”
A separate review carried out by a special assistant after the execution had been completed found that all the required medical steps set out in the protocol had been properly followed using trained and qualified staff and there had been no variations from established policy. “I find no reason for revision of policy for future executions,” the report concluded.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/05/ohio-dennis-mcguire-execution-worked-very-well
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