Too fat for lethal injection
A federal judge Tuesday issued a temporary stay on Ohio death row inmate Jeffrey Lundgren's Oct. 24 execution and let the homicidal cult leader join a five-inmate lawsuit challenging the state's use of lethal injection.
Lundgren argued because he's fat and diabetic, he's at even greater risk of suffering pain during execution. The U.S. Constitution bars cruel and unusual punishment. The judge reasoned flaws in Ohio's execution method could be quickly fixed, although last May the state's execution crew had trouble finding a usable vein to execute Joseph Clark, who as a former addict had screwed up his veins by injecting drugs.
Whatever you think of the death penalty, such pain and suffering appeals by ruthless killers are ludicrous. Lundgren gunned down a family of five including three girls because they weren't enthusiastic enough about his cult. Besides if the courts were to buy the too-fat-to-die argument, it could trigger eating binges on death rows second to none.
It doesn't pain me to say: Take the guy's Twinkies away from him.
posted by Tony Lang at 9:33 AM
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at 10:57 AM, October 19, 2006 
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Post a Comment*As a metabolically challenged diabetic, I take offense at your "twinkies" reference. Would you be so blithely insensitive if the inmate had HIV, was an alcoholic or addict, or otherwise not a "perfect specimen."
That said, I agree with your main point. Electric chair good enough for this murderer.
I think "Metabolically challenged diabetic is an oxymoron, but, hey, it's your label, use it if you like.
I can see a lawyer making a case for a sexual predator based upon his client being "metabolically challenged" with too mch testosterone.
The point I really wanted to make is that it isn't the crimnal coming up with this BS, it's his attorney. Maybe we should have his twinkies removed.
12:44 It's not so much an "oxymoron" as a redundant tautology.
Still, your points are both well-taken.
I'm hoping that 11:57 poster was being sarcastic, but I have a feeling he wasn't.
Okay, first off, there should be a general no twinkie rule for all prisoners. Twinkies are a luxury that us nonviolent members of society should be able to partake in.
The "cruel and unusual" punishment argument that's been coming into play lately with the lethal injection is bull. Where was his sympathy when he was murdering people? He surely wasn't concerned with the cruelness that he was dosing out on them, was he?
There are needles big enough to get through his fat arm and if it hurts a little...too bad. Of course, I'm the girl that's all about bringing back public hangings, so he's not getting much sympathy here.
wow, are you a doctor or a comedian ??
Agree with W Shakespeare on some lawyers !
I'm sorry to have to post this here, but I would very much like to see a poignant debate on how the Cincinnati Enquirer actually imperils Democratic tradition. I speak, of course, of the governor's race in Ohio and the race for the 4th district congressional seat in Kentucky. In both of those races, in recent weeks, I was surprised to learn that there were third party candidates, green and libertarian candidates running for governor, and a libertarian running against Ken Lucas and Geoff Davis in Kentucky.
My point is this: as much as this newspaper originally touts the benefits of democracy, it sure as heck works to curtail the idea that independent and minor-party candidates will ever reach an audience of voters. Did not, after all, the Cincinnati Enquirer sponsor the gubernatorial debate that locked out two candidates from the Republican-Democrat lovefest? The Enquirer, on principle of democracy, should have refused to sponsor such an event had it a moral compass to guide it. These events claim that only candidates with a sizeable support of the population will be invited to debate, but how is a third-party candidate ever supposed to be invited anywhere if the same newspapers and tv shows that sponsor these debates refuse to grant their views equal (or at least some) air time? The Enquirer should be ashamed that after all these months of reading it, that I had to learn of a libertarian running in Kentucky from a Community Recorder paper.
You do a serious injustice to our democracy when you fail to let small and independent voices be heard. I would really like a post on "Today's Forum" discussing this matter in its entirety.
I think we should give him as much time and consideration as he gave his victims.
And who the heck if FEEDING him enough that after all this time he's still "fat"? What happened to bread and water?
Ya know, who cares about this? The Enquirer staff has set this blog up to distract you readers from the real issues. For example, have you ever heard of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America agreement or the North American Union? Of course not. Google them and see what you've been missing. Then ask yourself why the Enquirer would prefer to engage its readers in such tripe as "Too fat for lethal injection" rather than a discussion of the merits of the Bush administration's efforts to integrate the United States, Canada and Mexico into the North American Union, similar to the European Union.
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