The not-so-smooth criminals of Ohio’s Death Row will soon know what it was like to live like Jacko did. For the last day of his life, at least.

There’s no word on whether or not the State of Ohio has engaged the services of Dr. Conrad Murray to administer its new execution protiocol, but I’m sure he’d welcome the chance to resume practicing his brand of “medicine.”

So now we’re gonna snuff people by giving them a OD. Lovely. We’ll still spend obscene amounts of money in the courts to execute convicts, in a state that is rapidly becoming a third-world wasteland. I don’t even want to think of how many tens of millions of dollars this idiotic state will spend on a ritual that deters no crime and serves no purpose beyond revenge, and propping up the political careers of shit politicians.

As Chrissie Hynde said, way to go, Ohio. As always, our politicians are forward thinkers, positioning us for the challenges we face.

That was sarcasm, for those who might think I’m the least bit serious. It’s hard to imagine a more ineffective state government than the one Ohio has. Yes, Strickland is much better than Taft was, but…. a sick cat could have done a better job than Taft did.

Ohio has become the first state to switch to a single drug for use in carrying out the death sentence by lethal injection.

This new single drug method has never been tried on U.S. inmates before and is in stark contrast to the three drug cocktail currently used.

The state filed papers to the U.S. District court to change the procedure after a death row inmate, Romell Broom, had his execution postponed two months ago.

Executioners could not find a suitable vein in Broom and were forced to postpone his and the subsequent executions of others on death row until the problem was resolved.

Thiopental sodium will be used as the life-ending drug alongside a muscle injection containing a two drug cocktail to be used as a backup.

Ohio has executed 32 people since 1999.

And Ohio has without a doubt spent several hundred million dollars to do so. Money that could have gone towards housing some of our homeless, or shoring up our failing schools, or fixing some of our potholes. This kind of stupid waste is what kills me, not sympathy for the convicts. If I had it my way the brutal ones would continue to live just like they do right now, in death row-23 hours of sitting in a cell, every day, day in and day out. I believe that this is a far more serious punishment than snuffing someone.

But we don’t do things that make a whole lot of sense here in Ohio. We haven’t for a long time now. It’s no accident that “Junket John” Boehner and “Mean Jean” Schmidt hail from the Buckeye (which is a useless, poisonous nut) State.

Tags: Death Penalty, insanity, ohio

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