Defense attorneys said the use of ketamine, fentanyl and potassium chloride could cause ‘excruciating suffering’

Defense attorneys said the use of ketamine, fentanyl and potassium chloride could cause ‘excruciating suffering’

Utah officials said on Saturday that they are scrapping plans to use an untested lethal drug combination in next month’s planned execution of a man in a 1998 murder case. They will instead seek out a drug that’s been used previously in executions in numerous states.

Defense attorneys for Taberon Dave Honie, 49, had sued in state court to stop the use of the drug combination, saying it could cause the defendant “excruciating suffering”.

The execution scheduled for 8 August would be Utah’s first since the 2010 execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner, by firing squad.

  • @mecfs
    48•4 months ago

    Honestly, the guillotine was the peak. Every new method since then is simply more for the viewers comfort than the actual person dyingz

    • @kn33English
      35•4 months ago

      *as long as the blade is kept sharp

      • @mecfs
        22•4 months ago

        are there a significant number of reported “botched executions” with guillotine? Even if the weight is blunt, it is so heavy and comes down at such a force that it would likely break the spine and destroy the brain steam and cause a near instant death.

    • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
      10•4 months ago

      Only problem with that is open caskets and decapitation like that isn’t instant. The brain is still alive for a bit.

      • @mecfs
        8•4 months ago

        Yep. About 2-3 seconds is the estimate. Unless you are obliterated in a fireball, there’s no way for death to be truly instant.