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Dennis McGuire, a rapist and murderer, was the test subject for Ohio’s newest lethal injection concoction. The mixture of midazolam, a sedative, and hydromorphone, a derivative from morphine was a replacement for pentobarbital. Ohio ran out of pentobarbital in 2009, after the European manufacturers began to refuse to distribute to US states for lethal injection. The execution process was unusually long, taking approximately 20 minutes, 10 of which, Dennis McGuire spent gasping, choking, and snorting.
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