Federal public defender Allen Bohnert talks about the execution of his client, death row inmate Dennis McGuire, by a never-tried lethal drug process, on Thursday at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. After McGuire repeatedly gasped over several minutes before dying, Bohnert called the procedure “a failed agonizing experiment by the state of Ohio.”Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
- WHO FORCED OBAMA’S HAND ON GOVERNMENT SPYING
Changes to the NSA’s operations would not be happening had Edward Snowden not thrust the secret programs out into the open.
- BUDGET CLEARS US CONGRESS WITH EASE
Tea party critics chastened by October’s partial shutdown mount only a faint protest to the $1.1 trillion spending plan.
- EXECUTED OHIO MAN’S FAMILY PLANS LAWSUIT
The condemned inmate took almost 25 minutes to die after the injection of a two-drug cocktail that had never before been used in an execution in the U.S.
- ISRAELI LAW WOULD CRIMINALIZE USE OF THE WORD ‘NAZI’
The measure has sparked a debate about freedom of speech in a state that was founded out of the ashes of the Holocaust.