Ohio justly executed rapist/torturer/murderer Dennis McGuire.
Unconscious, McGuire snored and the media went apoplectic.
The Horror is that the media will have 10,000 more articles about the imagined suffering of this executed rapist/torturer/murderer than they did about the real suffering of his victims, Joy Stewart, her husband Kenny, unborn child Carl and their families and friends.
There is no indication that McGuire was in pain, at any time, or that he was conscious after the first 1-3 minutes of the 25 minute execution process, as pharmacological realities would dictate (see below).
Joy’s husband, Kenny, committed suicide within a year after their murders.
McGuire had more time on death row than Joy had in life.
“State prison records released Monday say McGuire told guards that (McGuire’s counsel, Robert) Lowe counseled him to make a show of his death that would, perhaps, lead to abolition of the death penalty. But three accounts from prison officials indicate McGuire refused to put on a display.” (1)
“Amy Borror, a spokeswoman for the public defender’s office, said all accounts from execution eyewitnesses – which did not include Lowe – indicate McGuire was unconscious at the time he struggled to breathe.” (1)
“Medical experts would not comment on Mr. McGuire’s execution or speculate about what he experienced. They agreed that used for surgery, the two drugs would not cause pain. (2).
“By virtue of what they do, they cause unconsciousness, and they inhibit pain,” said Dr. Howard Nearman, professor of anesthesiology at Case Western Reserve University (2).
As there was no surgery, both drugs were given at overdose levels and both drugs would enhance the effects of the other, of course there was no pain.
“McGuire was still for almost five minutes, then emitted a loud snort, as if snoring, and continued to make that sound over the next several minutes. He also soundlessly opened and shut his mouth several times as his stomach rose and fell.” “A coughing sound was Dennis McGuire’s last apparent movement, at 10:43 a.m. He was pronounced dead 10 minutes later.” (3)No evidence of consciousness or pain.
Sadly, we have ignorant, anti death penalty folks, who just can’t wait to get their word out, such as McGuire’s spiritual advisor, Father Lawrence Hummer, stating, “There is no question in my mind that Dennis McGuire suffered greatly over many minutes. . . . this experimental two-drug concoction had taken 26 minutes. I consider that inhumane.” (4)
McGuire’s children have threatened to sue the state over their father’s just execution. So foul. They have learned so very little.Their only comments should have been:
“We are truly sorry for the horror and suffering that our father has caused to Joy, her husband, Kenny, their unborn son, Carl and to their family and friends. Our thoughts and prayers will be with them, always.”
Maybe Father Hummer’s only words should been along those lines, as well.
The properties of the drugs and their overdosing effects are very well known – by no means an experiment . . and they don’t just, suddenly, disappear, for no reason.From Current Preble County Prosecutor Martin Votle (5) :
“The focus needs to stay where it belongs and that’s on Joy.” ” . . . if there has been any injustice done it’s in a delay of 20 years between the imposition of that sentence . . . and the execution . . “.
“(McGuire) was vicious and dangerous. He had raped and murdered Joy Morningstar, gotten away with it and then 10 months later decided he liked abducting and assaulting women at knife point so much he did it again.” ” . . . “he abducted that 15-year-old at knife point . . . ” “The girl struggled with him and he beat her and they made so much noise that her family and friends ran out the front door of the house and interceded and saved her life. . . ”
“(McGuire) was a predator and had he not been caught, there is no doubt in my mind he would have continued that behavior until he was caught.”
“It occurred to me that Feb. 11 (2014), we’re talking three weeks now, will be the 25th anniversary of the murder. That (unborn son, Carl) very likely would be looking forward to his 25th birthday coming up here. That’s pretty heartbreaking.” “(Carl) would have died from suffocation.”
1) “OHIO GUARDS: INMATE WAS URGED TO FAKE SUFFOCATION”, JULIE CARR SMYTH, ASSOCIATED PRESS, Jan 27, 2014, 9:48 PM EST,
2) Family Sues in Protracted Ohio Execution, ASSOCIATED PRESS, New York Times, JAN. 25, 20143) OHIO KILLER EXECUTED WITH NEW LETHAL DRUG COMBO, ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS AP Legal Affairs Writer, The Daily Record, January 16, 2014 2:57PM
3) OHIO KILLER EXECUTED WITH NEW LETHAL DRUG COMBO, ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS AP Legal Affairs Writer, The Daily Record, January 16, 2014 2:57PM
4) “I witnessed Ohio’s execution of Dennis McGuire. What I saw was inhumane”, Lawrence Hummer, The Guardian,theguardian.com, 22 January 2014 13.51 EST
5) Home Votel: Victims need to be remembered, The Register Herald, January, 2014,
By Eddie Mowen Jr
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002633.html
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Dudley Sharp is not only the ONLY godson (Episcopal), of playwright Tennessee Williams, but his grandfather, Dudley Crawford Sharp I, was Eisenhower’s TOP ALLY in fighting the corruption of the Military Industrial Complex, which Eisenhower fought valiantly late in his term.
Dudley #I had threats to his family and had to RECANT — something that Dudley III — in our discussion three years ago — didn’t even know about — yet it is all over the Internet. Today, Dudley has supported the hateful practices of corrupted Republicans, which my mother is in charge of — Mom being the boss Dick Cheney, now deceased former Nixon Aide John Ehrlichman (whom I got to know when he, my father, and Newt Gingrich set up a big narcotics-trafficking operation in Stone Mountain, GA where I lived, and then Bill Clinton brought in a HUGE CIA presence to my town to protect it — this in the early 1990s), Sean Hannity, and Coach Lou Holtz (lived across the street from us 1968 – 1970, and he promoted Mom’s Swastikas which decorated our dinner china, so well Mom GOT him the job coaching Notre Dame, and TODAY Lou Holtz is John Boehner’s closest personal friend and co-strategist.
My mother, at 91, is still alive and active, so I am attempting to have her arrested and tried. Perhaps SHE will suffer Mr. Dudley Sharp’s beloved death penalty — and with LUCK, it will be SLOW AND PAINFUL.
Sad to have to condemn one’s NAZI mother, but I am a PATRIOT!!!
Please have Mr. Sharp contact me via email — I have important matters to discuss with him about my good friend “Texas Kate”, his mother, — and her descendants.
Scott David Kenan