Ohio execution delayed: Can't find a vein...

[liberalnurse]

I have to be honest, it made me laugh.....I'd like to be the nurse who started his IV. I imagine he wasn't that co-operative either...


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A murderer who lost his appeal that lethal injection was cruel and unusual punishment was executed Tuesday after prison workers struggled to find veins to insert the deadly chemical mix.

The difficulty inserting shunts in his arms delayed John Glenn Roe's execution by about 20 minutes.

Roe, 41, lay calmly on the bed in his death-house cell 11 minutes after his execution was scheduled to begin as health workers poked around his arms and witnesses watched through a glass window. The shunts, where a needle carrying a mix of muscle relaxant and a heart-stopping drug are inserted, could not be installed in his forearms, the normal location. Instead, the workers found they were able to penetrate veins near his wrists.

Roe grabbed Crawford from her car on the Columbus' west side, choked, then shot and robbed her, court records show. She left a 9-month-old girl.


http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/cleveland/index.ssf?/base/news-8/107581614559030.xml

[Silverhair]

1. If normal procedure was followed, he was already well sedated.

The famous "last meal" is loaded with sedatives. That's why they give them the choice of what they want, so they are more likely to eat it.