Inmate Faces New Security Ahead Of Execution-state tries to avoid another suicide attempt

[The Straight Story]

Inmate Faces New Security Ahead Of Execution

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The next inmate to be executed in Ohio faces heightened security this weekend as the state tries to avoid another suicide attempt on death row.

Darryl Durr is under a 72-hour watch at a Youngstown prison. He is scheduled to die Tuesday by lethal injection for strangling a 16-year-old girl in suburban Cleveland in 1988.

Prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn says the cell watch has been standard in the days before executions. But now the cell includes a Plexiglas-like door so guards can keep better surveillance.

Also, staff will evaluate whether Durr can have certain personal items, including shoestrings.

http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2010/04/17/story-ohio-inmate-execution-security.html?sid=102

[BrklynLiberal]

1. ? Never could understand saving their life so that the state could execute them

[NYC_SKP]

2. This may sound harsh, but I think it's like a Rapist who only wants sex with those who resist.

committing suicide takes away their power to kill him.

And they can't be having any of that.

Makes me sick.

[Hekate]

3. The age-old term for it is "cheating the gallows," a last act of self-will...

... after being condemned to death by the State.

Hekate

[provis99]

6. Goering committed suicide before he could be executed.

So he was never punished for his crimes. He lost the right to take his own life when he was found guilty. It may be a symbolic idea, since he's dead either way, but symbols are important.

[BlooInBloo]

7. The fundamental expression of The State's power shall not be denied!

[NYC Liberal]

8. I'm pretty sure they have to stop ANY suicide attempts

whether the inmate is on death row or not. Of course it's dumber when they are, just like cleaning the needle before they carry out lethal injection.

[Duer 157099]

4. In-fucking-sane

At the very least, they're disallowing the placement of the karma for the death on the shoulders where it belongs. I think that anyone who is condemned to death ought to have first crack at carrying out the sentence.

Not to mention the cost, in money, involved.

Stupid, just really stupid.

[tularetom]

5. Hard to say it isn't all about revenge when you read something like this

We want this jerk to know WE are the ones that killed him by god!!

If he kills himself we won't have our vengeance.