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The best, most humane and least expensive execution ‘cocktail’ is a firing squad. Enough with this absurdity of needing to be gentle with the scum of the Earth.

Via NPR.

After an almost three-year, defacto moratorium, Ohio plans to resume executions in the new year, the state’s Department of Rehabilitation and Correction says.

Ohio has not put anyone to death since executing convicted killer and rapist Dennis McGuire in 2014. The state used a never-before-used combination of two drugs to execute McGuire, and it took him more than 20 minutes to die.

Today, the state told U.S. District Court Chief Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr. that it had updated its execution protocol. The state intends to use a three-drug cocktail that is very similar to the one used in Oklahoma.

That’s important because last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the use of the three drugs administered in Oklahoma does not violate the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

“After filing the updated policy with Judge Sargus, [Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction] will proceed with the scheduled execution of Ronald Phillips in January 2017,” DRC spokesperson JoEllen Smith said in a statement. “Phillips was convicted and sentenced to death in Summit County for the 1993 brutal rape and murder of a 3-year-old girl.”

At a court hearing today, the state said the three drugs — midazolam, rocuronium bromide and potassium chloride — are FDA approved and do not come from a compounding pharmacy.

Read the whole thing. Snowflakes will likely challenge this new plan in court.

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