Death Penalty

The death penalty is described by some as cruel and unusual punishment. Cruel, should be used only when describing how the victims died as a result of the
condemned man or woman's conduct.
Unusual, should be used to describe the number of death penalties given in that it does not seem to be usually administered.

Ohio executed Kenneth BIROS, today for the murder of a 22 year old woman. He disposed of the body throughout Ohio and Penna. He was convicted in 1991, and during that time his attorney fought the execution on the grounds that the use of three needles needed to conduct the execution was cruel and unusual in that it caused pain, (or what ever) and that only one needle should be used.

I will include some excerpts from the article. While reading the article I did not find to much about the cruel and unusual suffering that I am sure the young woman endured from the (now dead) piece of shit.

CBS NEWS article
The state "could and should shift to a one-drug protocol designed to cause death by means of an overdose of an anesthetic," John Parker, one of Biros' attorneys, said in a court filing last year.

Biros' attorneys want his execution delayed, saying the new untested method has never been used in "any other civilized country" and would amount to human experimentation. But the same attorneys earlier advocated for the state to switch to the one-drug method.

All 36 death penalty states use lethal injection, and 35 rely on the three-drug method. Nebraska, which recently adopted injection over electrocution, has proposed the three-drug method but hasn't finalized the process.

(not from CBS news, from me)
I think it was cruel and usual punishment to the woman's family to let this piece of shit live for 19 more years.