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Execution of Dennis McGuire (Dennis B. McGuire) was born on 10 February, 1960 in Warren County, Ohio, U.S., is a Botched execution in Ohio. Discover Execution of Dennis McGuire's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

Popular As Dennis B. McGuire
Occupation N/A
Age 54 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 10 February, 1960
Birthday 10 February
Birthplace Warren County, Ohio, U.S.
Date of death 2014
Died Place Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, Ohio, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1960

Dennis B. McGuire (February 10, 1960 – January 16, 2014) was sentenced to death on December 8, 1994, for the 1989 rape and murder of 22-year-old Joy Stewart in West Alexandria, Ohio.

1989

Stewart disappeared on February 11, 1989, and her body was found by two hikers the following day in the woods near Bantas Creek.

An autopsy was performed, and it was determined she had died from having her throat cut by a knife, which had severed her carotid artery and jugular vein.

No leads came in for the case until December 1989, when McGuire, who was in prison for an unrelated crime, spoke with police, and told them that his brother-in-law had murdered Stewart.

McGuire knew details about the crime that had not been made public, making investigators take his allegation seriously.

However, as new details emerged, it became apparent that McGuire had been the actual perpetrator.

1992

DNA testing carried out in 1992 proved that McGuire had raped and murdered Stewart.

1993

On December 22, 1993, McGuire was charged with one count of aggravated murder, two counts of rape, and one count of kidnapping.

1994

On December 8, 1994, McGuire was found guilty of all charges, and the jury recommended a death sentence.

2013

In September 2013, the state of Ohio ran out of the drug pentobarbital.

The drug, originally manufactured in Denmark, was subject to strict export licenses that prevented it being sold to departments of correction within the United States.

European-based manufacturers banned prisons in the United States from using their drugs in executions.

Because of this, the state of Ohio was forced to use a new combination of drugs to execute McGuire.

The state decided on a combination of the drugs midazolam, a sedative, and hydromorphone, an opioid painkiller.

The combination had never been tried or tested before.

McGuire's lawyers had warned ahead of the proceeding that the new combination of drugs may subject McGuire to air hunger, which would cause him to suffocate to death.

In court proceedings, an Ohio state prosecutor bluntly stated that McGuire was not [necessarily and automatically] entitled to a painless execution, and a judge allowed the execution to proceed.

2014

The execution of Dennis McGuire occurred on January 16, 2014, at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, in what was considered to be a botched execution.

McGuire was executed via lethal injection using a new combination of untried and untested drugs: midazolam and hydromorphone.

During the execution, witnesses reported that McGuire could be seen struggling to breathe, and reportedly gasped loudly while making snorting and choking sounds for at least ten minutes.

It took over twenty-five minutes for McGuire to die, in a process that should normally take just over eight minutes.

The execution led to an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment in Ohio for over three years.

McGuire's family filed a civil rights lawsuit against the state and an Illinois drug company.

The lawsuit was later dropped by the family after the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction announced it would abandon the execution method it had used on McGuire.

McGuire spent over nineteen years on death row until his execution date, which was scheduled for January 16, 2014.

At 10:28a.m. on the morning of January 16, 2014, at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, McGuire was injected with both drugs after he gave a final statement.

According to a witness at the execution, four minutes into the procedure, McGuire could be seen struggling and gasping loudly for air.

He made snorting and choking sounds, which lasted for at least ten to fifteen minutes.

At 10:53a.m., McGuire was pronounced dead.

The execution took over twenty-five minutes, in a process that should have normally taken around eight.

It was the longest execution ever recorded in Ohio.

His last meal was roast beef, fried chicken, a bagel with cream cheese, fried potatoes with onions, potato salad, butter pecan ice cream, and a Coke.

Following the execution, McGuire's family planned to sue the state of Ohio for inflicting cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the US constitution.

A professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School told an Ohio court that using midazolam was inappropriate in an execution, and that the state ran the risk of McGuire being conscious for up to five minutes while suffocating.

The human rights group Reprieve also released a statement in response, saying they were shocked that the state had gone ahead with the execution, despite the warnings from experts.

All pending executions in Ohio were put on hold, and an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment in Ohio was declared by Governor John Kasich.

The state then tried to find compounded or specially mixed versions of lethal drugs, but was unsuccessful.

Kasich later signed a bill into law that shielded the names of companies that provide the state of Ohio with lethal injection drugs.

Over a year later, McGuire's family dropped its civil rights lawsuit against the state after the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction announced it would abandon the execution method it had used on McGuire in favor of alternative anesthetics.

2017

The state did not carry out another execution until July 2017.