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| State legislator wants to use seized fentanyl in Ohio executions |
| 2019-08-15 |
| [The Columbus Dispatch] A death-penalty expert calls it unworkable, but an Ohio House member intends to introduce a bill to allow the state’s condemned to be executed with illegal fentanyl seized by police. In a Monday email, Rep. Scott Wiggam, R-Wooster, sought co-sponsors for his planned legislation, which would employ a synthetic opioid that has killed thousands of Ohioans in accidental overdoses. "I believe that seized fentanyl (considered forefeited contraband through the court system) is the best solution" to the state’s inability to buy execution drugs from their manufacturers, Wiggam wrote. Wiggam proposes that the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction work with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to secure fentanyl seized in law enforcement operations for lethal injection. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 Why not use the way of the PC Navaho of old. Put the felons head on a rock and crush it with a club. That way Coyote and the Ants get fed. |
| Posted by: Snavimble Bucket1794 2019-08-15 21:31 |
| #6 State legislator wants to use seized fentanyl in Ohio executions Well played. |
| Posted by: gorb 2019-08-15 19:46 |
| #5 Maybe if fentanyl was used for executions China would suddenly decide to stop sending it for "human rights reasons." Nah, that's just crazy talk... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-08-15 11:00 |
| #4 Why? Why do we have to use drugs at all? I maintain that hanging people is good for everybody involved. It makes a dramatic statement, it is of cultural significance, it is easy to do when drug companies are being political creeps, and it doesn't require much prep. And it really isn't a comparatively cruel way to kill somebody. |
| Posted by: Vernal Hatrick 2019-08-15 10:50 |
| #3 Death Penalty Expert ? What... he serve at Birkenau or something ? How many executions can he have 'researched' ? Fentanyl overdose will easily put down anything, 1 mg for every 50 kg of body-weight. Absolutely workable, poetic and economical idea. I'd support it just for the poetic. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-08-15 10:32 |
| #2 On the other hand MM, maybe it'll deter some potential users? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-08-15 10:31 |
| #1 It would "work" just fine. Being as pharma grade stuff has been cited in deaths there's not much doubt about that. Problem is, the invitation to lawsuits is huge. How will the dept. of corrections ensure the seized illegal product is pure? George Carlin once quipped, "You know, they use an alcohol swab on the arm before they give a lethal injection..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-08-15 09:41 |