Lawyers for the 59-year-old Alva Campbell, who was sentenced in Ohio for the death penalty for murder, is asked to replace the method of execution for execution after the condemned has survived after 25 minutes of lethal injection.
According to the lawyers, they will agree on reintroduction of the drug, but only if Alva Campbell will wear a device to monitor brain activity and revived it in the case that the injection will not work again.
«Otherwise, penalty Campbell is the infliction of severe physical pain and suffering,» he justified his position by the defence.
According to the Associated Press, Alva Campbell was sentenced to death for the murder of 18-year-old boy in 1997. In November last year, at the convicted person has not worked a deadly drug, and the warden stopped the punishment. By order of the state Governor John Kasich, the execution was rescheduled for June 2019.
According to the General Prosecutor’s office of Ohio, the request of lawyers «goes beyond common sense.»
«It would seem undeniable that the shooting is far more cruel option for the prisoner than lethal injection,» said assistant attorney General Jocelyn Lowe. In addition, according to her, the laws of the state of Ohio does not have firing squad as capital punishment. (It is allowed in Utah and Oklahoma.)
«And certainly the state is not required to resuscitate the prisoner. Medical or intensive care directly contradicts a death verdict,» added Lowe.
