Ohio Republicans Want Secret Government Executions
Republicans sure like to execute people but, like so much of what they do, the public gets a little uneasy when informed about the things they love to do. The Solution? Propose a law making the details of government executions secret.
Click here for reuse options!Republican lawmakers in Ohio are rushing through the most extreme secrecy bill yet attempted by a death penalty state, which would withhold information on every aspect of the execution process from the public, media and even the courts.
The draft legislation, framed by Republican state lawmakers Jim Buchy and Matt Huffman, has passed the state House of Representatives and now goes before the Senate. Republican leaders, backed by Ohio’s attorney general, Mike DeWine, want to ram it through no later than 17 December.
The move to erect a wall of secrecy is particularly alarming in Ohio, a state that has experienced no fewer than four botched executions in the past eight years. The most recent was the 26-minute death of Dennis McGuire in January, using an experimental two-drug combination. Eyewitnesses reported him gasping and fighting for breath.
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By: Mark Quincy Adams
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Carla Akins November 30th, 2014 at 09:43
I’d say Ricky Jackson is the most alarming thing about this law. http://www.alan.com/2014/11/29/freed-after-39-years/
Carla Akins November 30th, 2014 at 10:43
I’d say Ricky Jackson is the most alarming thing about this law. http://www.alan.com/2014/11/29/freed-after-39-years/
mea_mark November 30th, 2014 at 09:59
The real Death Panels are coming, and they are secret right-wing panels.
M D Reese November 30th, 2014 at 11:59
Many are sitting openly on the Supreme Court.
mea_mark November 30th, 2014 at 10:59
The real Death Panels are coming, and they are secret right-wing panels.
M D Reese November 30th, 2014 at 12:59
Many are sitting openly on the Supreme Court.
anothertoothpick November 30th, 2014 at 10:16
If you have to keep a secret it’s because you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place”
― David Nicholls, One Day
anothertoothpick November 30th, 2014 at 11:16
If you have to keep a secret it’s because you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place”
― David Nicholls, One Day
crc3 November 30th, 2014 at 10:54
Teapublicans (not just in Ohio) want to continue to build on fascist governing. Possibly the beginning of Nazi America?
rg9rts November 30th, 2014 at 11:24
And you think that is an amusement park they are building
crc3 November 30th, 2014 at 11:48
?????
rg9rts November 30th, 2014 at 11:58
Concentration camps
Robert Keith Johnston November 30th, 2014 at 15:46
They had both, actually.
There were four “death camps”, with all located in what is modern-day Poland:
Auschwitz-Bierkenau
Sobibor
Madjenik
Treblinka.
In these four camps, most of the “new arrivals” were sent to the gas chamber, with only a very few selected to toil as slave labor (with most of these gassed-and-cremated as well).
The other camps (ie: Buchenwald, Malthausen, Dachau, Ravensbruch, Gross-Rosen) were mainly labor-type camps, where they they were worked to death (or died in more gruesome ways for breaking the rules).
Check out The Holocaust Chronicle for the information (you can find it at your local library, or on Amazon.com) on the different camps.
–RKJ
M D Reese November 30th, 2014 at 11:58
In Nazi Germany, the “undesirables” were taken off to the death camps in buses which had pictures of happy people going off on “vacation” pasted to the inside of the windows.
FrankenPC . November 30th, 2014 at 12:09
Depends on who’s being amused.
crc3 November 30th, 2014 at 11:54
Teapublicans (not just in Ohio) want to continue to build on fascist governing. Possibly the beginning of Nazi America?
rg9rts November 30th, 2014 at 12:24
And you think that is an amusement park they are building
crc3 November 30th, 2014 at 12:48
?????
rg9rts November 30th, 2014 at 12:58
Concentration camps
Robert Keith Johnston November 30th, 2014 at 16:46
They had both, actually.
There were four “death camps”, with all located in what is modern-day Poland:
Auschwitz-Bierkenau
Sobibor
Madjenik
Treblinka.
In these four camps, most of the “new arrivals” were sent to the gas chamber, with only a very few selected to toil as slave labor (with most of these gassed-and-cremated as well).
The other camps (ie: Buchenwald, Malthausen, Dachau, Ravensbruch, Gross-Rosen) were mainly labor-type camps, where they they were worked to death (or died in more gruesome ways for breaking the rules).
Check out The Holocaust Chronicle for the information (you can find it at your local library, or on Amazon.com) on the different camps.
–RKJ
M D Reese November 30th, 2014 at 12:58
In Nazi Germany, the “undesirables” were taken off to the death camps in buses which had pictures of happy people going off on “vacation” pasted to the inside of the windows.
FrankenPC . November 30th, 2014 at 13:09
Depends on who’s being amused.
rg9rts November 30th, 2014 at 11:23
Weren’t these the same clowns that howled about death panels???
M D Reese November 30th, 2014 at 11:56
The very same. This is DIFFERENT though…in their minds.
FrankenPC . November 30th, 2014 at 12:08
It’s a totally other thing. This is totally, not like that other thing. At all. Move along.
M D Reese November 30th, 2014 at 13:41
(Not a damn thing to see here…)
GreatLakeSailor November 30th, 2014 at 14:44
Secret executions happen to “Them.”
Death Panels on the other hand, those could happen to “Us”
So Secret Executions are OK, ’cause there’s no way “I” could go from an “Us” to a “Them” No possible way at all. Nuh-uh. Nope. Zeeee-Row.
M D Reese November 30th, 2014 at 16:11
And they don’t want to tax the filthy rich because they all think that they will win the lottery someday…geniuses, all.
rg9rts November 30th, 2014 at 12:23
Weren’t these the same clowns that howled about death panels???
M D Reese November 30th, 2014 at 12:56
The very same. This is DIFFERENT though…in their minds.
FrankenPC . November 30th, 2014 at 13:08
It’s a totally other thing. This is totally, not like that other thing. At all. Move along.
M D Reese November 30th, 2014 at 14:41
(Not a damn thing to see here…)
GreatLakeSailor November 30th, 2014 at 15:44
Secret executions happen to “Them.”
Death Panels on the other hand, those could happen to “Us”
So Secret Executions are OK, ’cause there’s no way “I” could go from an “Us” to a “Them” No possible way at all. Nuh-uh. Nope. Zeeee-Row.
M D Reese November 30th, 2014 at 17:11
And they don’t want to tax the filthy rich because they all think that they will win the lottery someday…geniuses, all.
Hirightnow November 30th, 2014 at 11:24
Unconstitutional.
arc99 November 30th, 2014 at 11:24
It is uncanny how right wingers are consistently most guilty of the policies they pretend to oppose.
They rail against Sharia law, then turn right around and use the Bible to justify legislation.
They warn of the evils of big government, but have no problem mandating what must occur in an office visit between a doctor and a woman seeking an abortion.
Now they want to hide behind a wall of secrecy while they carry out taxpayer funded policy. The taxpayers who foot the bill for these executions will have no way to determine if their tax dollars are being put to the best use.
Right wingers love to call us lefties “socialists”. Personally, I find that being called a socialist by a bunch of closet fascists tells me that I am doing the right thing.
Roctuna November 30th, 2014 at 11:47
I’d say the fascists came out of the closet around 1980 and they’ve been getting more strident ever since.
M D Reese November 30th, 2014 at 11:56
Hear hear!
GreatLakeSailor November 30th, 2014 at 14:12
Agreed. Paragraph 4: I’d come to the same conclusion, but one based not on “what the peoples representatives are doing with/best use of tax dollars” but rather, “what the peoples representatives are doing in our name/with our empowerment”
Maybe I’m pickin’ at nits, but for me the moral implications of secret executions is far and away more important than money.
Hirightnow November 30th, 2014 at 12:24
Unconstitutional.
arc99 November 30th, 2014 at 12:24
It is uncanny how right wingers are consistently most guilty of the policies they pretend to oppose.
They rail against Sharia law, then turn right around and use the Bible to justify legislation.
They warn of the evils of big government, but have no problem mandating what must occur in an office visit between a doctor and a woman seeking an abortion.
Now they want to hide behind a wall of secrecy while they carry out taxpayer funded policy. The taxpayers who foot the bill for these executions will have no way to determine if their tax dollars are being put to the best use.
Right wingers love to call us lefties “socialists”. Personally, I find that being called a socialist by a bunch of closet fascists tells me that I am doing the right thing.
Roctuna November 30th, 2014 at 12:47
I’d say the fascists came out of the closet around 1980 and they’ve been getting more strident ever since.
M D Reese November 30th, 2014 at 12:56
Hear hear!
GreatLakeSailor November 30th, 2014 at 15:12
Agreed. Paragraph 4: I’d come to the same conclusion, but one based not on “what the peoples representatives are doing with/best use of tax dollars” but rather, “what the peoples representatives are doing in our name/with our empowerment”
Maybe I’m pickin’ at nits, but for me the moral implications of secret executions is far and away more important than money.
M D Reese November 30th, 2014 at 11:55
It cracks me up on how the tough-on-crime party wants to do its dirty work in secret.
We have this little Constitution thingy–the same Constitution that they all claim they want us to get “back” to.
FrankenPC . November 30th, 2014 at 12:07
Forget that! This is the same party that relentlessly claims communism is the most horrible thing on the planet. Yeah, well, secret executions are VERY communist.
M D Reese November 30th, 2014 at 13:44
True that. If I tried to make sense out of the thoughts in their heads, my head would explode.
M D Reese November 30th, 2014 at 12:55
It cracks me up on how the tough-on-crime party wants to do its dirty work in secret.
We have this little Constitution thingy–the same Constitution that they all claim they want us to get “back” to.
FrankenPC . November 30th, 2014 at 13:07
Forget that! This is the same party that relentlessly claims communism is the most horrible thing on the planet. Yeah, well, secret executions are VERY communist.
M D Reese November 30th, 2014 at 14:44
True that. If I tried to make sense out of the thoughts in their heads, my head would explode.
Roctuna November 30th, 2014 at 12:21
Goes hand in hand with this kind of thinking
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/boxcar-conservatives
Roctuna November 30th, 2014 at 13:21
Goes hand in hand with this kind of thinking
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/boxcar-conservatives
neworleans878 November 30th, 2014 at 12:52
Why stop there? Let’s make the whole judicial process secret! Bring back the Star Chamber!
nola878 November 30th, 2014 at 13:52
Why stop there? Let’s make the whole judicial process secret! Bring back the Star Chamber!