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摘要

Seven days before his execution, convicted murderer Dennis McGuire gave his son a wristwatch. As the first person to be put to death using a new, untested, two-drug combination, McGuire wanted his son to observe his final moments and to time how long it would take for him to die. A little after 10 a.m. on Jan. 16, 2014, McGuire, 53, walked into the brown-tiled execution chamber at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, pop. 2,757.AS his son, daughter and daughter-in-law watched from the other side of the glass, McGuire climbed onto the gurney and stretched out his arms. He'd been told by his lawyers that Ohio's new lethal-injection protocol could cause him to experience "air hunger" and feelings of terror as he tried to catch his breath.