Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge said Tuesday the state's lethal injection procedure doesn't provide the quick and painless death required by Ohio law.
Burge said Ohio must stop allowing a combination of drugs and focus instead on a single, anesthetic drug.
The ruling is likely be appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court.
Ohio has executed 26 inmates since it resumed putting prisoners to death in 1999.
OK, we could argue about the death penalty and whether it's inhumane to kill someone who has committed murder and other heinous crimes, but here's the picture that accompanied the story:
Yeah, the purple tie is a little passe, the craggy finger with the slightly too long fingernail is a little funny...wait! What's that popping up over his shoulder? Is that an Obama poster?? Why yes it is! Good thing there is no other art work up there...oh wait, who is that guy on the left (hyuk, hyuk!) is it Superman?
Nope, it's our good old Argentinean pest controller, Che! For a quick history refresher, here's the short bio from Wikipedia:
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (May 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che, or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, politician, author, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader. His stylized image also later became an ubiquitous countercultural symbol worldwide.
As a young medical student, Guevara travelled throughout Latin America and was transformed by the endemic poverty he witnessed. His experiences and observations during these trips led him to conclude that the region's ingrained economicinequalities were an intrinsic result of monopoly capitalism, neo-colonialism, and imperialism, with the only remedy being world revolution. This belief prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Arbenz, whose eventualCIA-assisted overthrow solidified Guevara’s radical ideology.
Later, in Mexico, he joined and was promoted to commander in Fidel Castro’s 26th of July Movement, playing a pivotal role in the successful guerrilla campaign to overthrow the U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.[1] After the Cuban revolution, Guevara served in many prominent governmental positions, including president of the national bank, minister of industry, and “supreme prosecutor” over the revolutionary tribunals and executions of suspected war criminals from the previous regime. Along with traversing the globe to meet an array of world leaders on behalf of Cuban socialism, he was a prolific writer and diarist. One of his most prominent published works includes a manual on the theory and practice of guerrilla warfare. Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to incite revolutions first in an unsuccessful attempt in Congo-Kinshasa and then in Bolivia, where he was captured with help of the CIA and executed.Both notorious for his harsh discipline and revered for his unwavering dedication to his revolutionary doctrines, Guevara remains an admired, controversial, and significant historical figure.
I am sure that once again, Obama will state that "he does not know this man" and "I never heard him say those things..." but what is it about old lefties that makes them want to hang a picture of a murdering Marxist thug as art? What are the characteristics or policies that he represented that are so appealing? "Harsh discipline?" "Unwavering dedication to his revolutionary doctrines?" Somehow, these folks see something in Obama that makes them gooey kneed in the same way that Che does. Remember these shots from the Houston campaign office?
