Have our judges and legislators lost their minds? Why is such a ridiculous "law" even on the books?? The only people who are put to death are the vilest murders who had no sympathy or compassion for their victims' "pain and suffering." This is really an outrage. It's time for someone with a lick of common sense to step in and get this done. And get that ridiculous "law" removed from the books so this never comes up again. Sheesh.

Reality Check, I could not agree with you more. This absolutely infuriates me that the system MUST take into consideration the "feelings" of the convicted, WHAT?? No consideration given to the victim?? What about the pain, etc. that was inflicted about her? The system definitely needs revised. The punishment SHOULD fit the crime, as simple as that. Go figure.

Fry his a**!

Bring back Old Sparky!

WHO CARES IF THEY SUFFER...what about the pain and suffering of the murder victims??????Firing squad or old sparky would work fine.

He beats an old lady to death and we're supposed to say "awwww the poor man is going to suffer so much with those needles, let's give him a break". That's basically what just happened here. I agree with the last poster, bring back the electric chair.

Then why don't they have a physician place a central line in the femoral artery, in these dirt bags. That way there is no question about it. No miss. This is total BS.

There are other execution methods that do work. Perhaps our contingency plan should be the electric chair, gas chamber, firing squad, or hanging. This convicted killer deserves the death penalty. He did the crime in a state where the death penalty exists. Let's hope the federal judge listens to the arguments, then makes the right choice here.

There is a very easy vein which can be tapped more eaily then an arm vein. Show the man a dirty movie then put the shunt right in the top of his padorkel. That vein runs directly to a mans heart and will probably be one of the fastest executions ever. either that or just beat him to dead with a stick or something. How about hook him up between two cares with a long rope and then just take off until it rips him in half. Instant death.

i think the "suffering" part is the problem...i agree they should burn and rot in you know where...but...we have a Constitution..that people seem worried about when is their benefit..but i think it refers to "cruel and unusual punishment"..again i agree with you all on this..but then again..do we have a set of constitution articles or not?? a very tough spot..

I have an idea!! bring back the firing squadsell ticketsand have a raffle.. $10 for a chance to shoot these slimballs.. its a win win situation... get rid of the slimballs and raise money for Ohio...

Pain from IVs should not be considered cruel and unusual punishment.

Millions of people go to hospitals, doctors and or to give blood every day and have IVs placed into them. Sometimes in this every day normal life, it is hard to find a vein However, this is a part of every day normal life. Therefore it is not cruel and or unusual punishment.

The State needs to make sure these criminals are kept very well hydrated and then a IV should be placed well in advance of execution time. A minimum of 8 hours before execution, a IV should be placed into the criminal in preparation in advance. Then Saline solution added to ensure proper hydration.

Then time for you debt to finally be paid to the victim, the victims families and then to society.

I believe the court of appeals acted wisely. Ohio's lethal injection process is flawed and needs to be fixed. The botched Broom execution demonstated the need for some kind of contingency plans. Unlike some of my fellow posters, I take no particular joy in having the state kill someone on my behalf. I take no particular joy out of hearing about another person suffering no matter what that person has done.

Here's and interesting article some commenter's may want to take a few minutes to read.

http://tiny.cc/YWYDs

It somewhat clarifies some of the issues brought up in several comments. I don't claim it gives any solutions but you will discover how we ended up this way.

These criminals are as always using any means possible to stop there executions and as always, for some reason, lack of anyone with any balls Judge or otherwise to uphold what is real.

IV pain is not cruel and unusual punishment. It is a part of every day normal life for millions of people.

These criminals try to beat the system in various ways.

Richard Cooey made himself fat in order for a vain to not be found to try to avoid his death sentence.

Romell Broom mad it very hard to find a vein by dehydrating himslef.

And now this piece of work uses Romell Brooms methods as a reason for him to get away with it too.

To Think - The state is not executing on your behalf or my behalf. The states responsibility is to sentence this man to death on behalf of the victim and or their families and the courts decision by jury, to sentence him to death.

This was my worst nightmare which I don't understand. How can someone feel sorry for this animal. My Aunt was in her own house which is suppose be a secure domain for anyone. She was definitly minding her own business and gave the animal a decent job to make money for more booze and drugs. Nice lady huh ????? Well she paid a lot more for the job than she ever thought she would didn't she ???????????? But please let the animal live because he might suffer for something he so innocently did to my Aunt. Bulls***
You can find a way to kill this sob lets do it and get this s*** over with and put a lot of people out of the hurt and pain to rest. Thank you state of Ohio for letting me believe Ohio is God's country. Well excuse me God is waiting for Larry. What are you going to tell God is the reason for this delay?????????????

To the many excellent reasons to abolish the death penalty — it’s immoral, does not deter murder and affects minorities disproportionately — we can add one more. It’s an economic drain on governments with already badly depleted budgets.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, keeping inmates on death row in Florida costs taxpayers $51 million a year more than holding them for life without parole. North Carolina has put 43 people to death since 1976 at $2.16 million per execution. The eventual cost to taxpayers in Maryland for pursuing capital cases between 1978 and 1999 is estimated to be $186 million for five executions.

Perhaps the most extreme example is California, whose death row costs taxpayers $114 million a year beyond the cost of imprisoning convicts for life. The state has executed 13 people since 1976 for a total of about $250 million per execution. This is a state whose prisons are filled to bursting (unconstitutionally so, the courts say) and whose government has imposed doomsday-level cuts to social services, health care, schools and parks.

Money spent on death rows could be spent on police officers, courts, public defenders, legal service agencies and prison cells. Some lawmakers, heeding law-enforcement officials who have declared capital punishment a low priority, have introduced bills to abolish it.

http://tinyurl.com/yckl9wy

I vote for death by 'coons mauling his padorkel.

Give him to the poor womans family. Let them take care of him. This is just BS! He showed no mercy while killing this poor lady, why should mercy be shown upon him ??? Give this poor family some justice so they can finally have some closer!

Jim777 - I understand the cost is great. So don't waste another day. Don't allow them to wait 20-25 yrs and end there life they day they are sentenced to death.

To all of you who don't believe in the death penalty, I say they should all come live with each and everyone of you. On the day of the sentencing, they shall go live one year with and every person who thinks they shall be saved. The burden of cost for, food, shelter, medical, clothing, re-rehabilitation and such shall go to you

When they attack and then kill your relatives, I am sure you will have nothing but sympathy and understanding for them and will say, oh well they deserve to live and not be punished.

Amen, Portage Lakes Guy.

@Portage Lakes Guy:

What fringe rubbish. You are just playing a regurgitated combination of fear and loathing.

It cost just more to kill somebody as it does to let them rot in prison the rest of their life.

But you wouldn't know that, because some AM Radio God didn't say so.

Here are some facts:

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty

Don't let ignorance win.

Life without parole would take care of all of the issues raised by Jim 777. Unfortunately, this is not just about Reynolds and, even more unfortunately, it is not just about his victim. It's not even about what is cruel or unusual -- that is simple the foothold Reynolds' lawyers were handed as they, appropriately, attempt to do their job. By executing Reynolds, but not executing so many others who commit essentially the same crime, we decide one victim's life is worth more than another. Kill them all, then, right? Wrong. Won't happen. As much as all might want it to. Nothing justifies what Reynolds did and he deserves whatever happens to him for doing it, but the State must be held to a higher standard. Life without parole is the solution.

nottheusual1 - You are talking about cost of keeping them in life for prison versus life on death row. I am not comparing that at all and don't care. I say kill them as soon as there sentence is handed to them. There is no way it will cost more.

I don't care about AM radio and I don't care about you or anyone else for that matter. All I care about is justice for the victims and their families.

If I am ever killed, I say right now, I want whoever killed me to die and pay for what they did to me. How about we have a victims right to choose penalty notice. We go to our lawyer and decide whether any one that kills me, I have the right to decide whether they live or die and no one else has the right to change that decision.

And one more thing. You are right I will not let you or anyone elses ignorance win.

God will ultimately judge everyone in the end, this guy included. If our society would stop being so legalistic and locking people up for stupid stuff, we would have more than enough room to keep the people locked up that needs to be locked up. God says let vengence be his not men. As you can probably tell, I'm not for the death penalty. That does not mean that I'm not for punishment and protecting society. Thou shalt not kill, even if it's the state. In the bible Paul killed a man, good thing he never got the death penalty, stop and think how many people he introduced to the Lord.

the whole problem with our justice system is that once these animals are convicted they get 10-20 years of appeals, free lawyers, free housing, food, medical care, cable etc etc...while their victims families have to relive their pain over and over again. cruel and unusual punishment...the law has it wrong that is what these animals did to their victims! makes me just plain sick to listen to these attorneys whine about how much pain it would be for their client, im sure it will be nothing compared to what their victims went thru....get on with it carry out the executions NOW!!

@portage lakes guy said:"You are talking about cost of keeping them in life for prison versus life on death row. I am not comparing that at all and don't care."

But had posted:"The burden of cost for, food, shelter, medical, clothing, re-rehabilitation and such shall go to you."

So, more fringe rubbish? And tehn had the nerve to say:"All I care about is justice for the victims and their families."

And who died and made you so all knowing - God and the families talking to you?

Tell me - does the left hand have the same view as the right hand?

What a responsibility to have to live with ...

Reynolds is playing off of Broom. Broom dehydrated himself to hope a vein could not be found. Cooey made himself as fat as possible to hide his veins.

Todd65 - Sorry but there must be separation from Church and State. God has nothing to do with this. Further more god gave man free will. This gives man the ability to murder and kill and man does it quite well doesn't he.

This also gives man's laws the ability to kill back and provide a justice for the victims and there families.

Maybe if god stopped all of this killing and crime in the first place, there would not be this problem now would there be.

God has failed you by allowing the murderers, killers, rapists. Now you expect us to rely that God will provide justice in the end. I think not. Shame on you god for allowing this weak mankind to have freewill.

nottheusual1 - I have as much right to voice my opinion as you. And so I say,

Kill him. Quit putting god into this. I could care less about what god thinks or what you think. If god cared so much he wouldn't have given man the freewill to kill anyway. As far as I am concerned god gave up his right at that point.

Yes, the cost shall go to you people who want to keep him alive, not me. As I want nothing to do with keeping him alive for life, why should I have to pay for it. Let all you people against the death penalty to house and pay for it all.

My family has been a victim of crime. I have been a victim of crime. So yes, I have a right to to say what I feel. When I am in front of god on my death bed and he is judging me, I will say to god, shame on you god for allowing murderers, rapists and all that is bad that happens to innocent young children and if god wants to send me to hell for it, then so be it, I accept it.

So Bite Me, All of you criminal lovers!

I say---"HANG EM" high from a telephone line and then let the famlies and friends of his victim take wacks with a baseball bat.

the big problem of keeping any one on death row, vs the death pently is that the state lets them watch color-cable HD tv, 3 sq. meals a day--why not feed them the same as the schools feed our students--pop tart, oj, milk, donuts, cereal, etc. for lunch PB & J a small salad, maybe on a good week you get pizza, mac & cheese. They have better health care then most workers on the outside and yet they complain that it may "HURT" a bit to try to inject the drugs(which many were or still doing while in prision) so just get on with it.

To portagelakesguy: It is hard for me to explain, but I believe that whenever the government does something, it has at least a little bit to do with me. I am part of electing the people who appoint the people who hire the people to do govenment work and make decisions. This may not make a lot of sense to many people, but it is what I believe. That is why I believe that when a person is excecuted, I have a bit of responsibility.

@portagelakesguy I think you have some anger issues to work through.

God has nothing to do with this since gods do not exist. I would rather have someone like Reynolds spending his life in prison, which is a greater punishment than killing him. Once you dead, your dead. His suffering is over. What do you remember of the 4 billions years before you were born. That's what being dead is like.

He's going to spend his life if a cage with none of the freedoms and pleasures of life we enjoy.

You can never be 100% certain that you will not put to death someone who is innocent. It has happened. That alone is why we should abolish the death penalty. Looks at how many people who have been exonerated by DNA evidence.

@Think I understand from where you are coming and agree.

what ever happen to firing squads gillmore took it like a man whats good enough for one is good enough for another!

HI Father of two! Ive been looking for ya,we missed ya last Friday,hope all is ok...

If the government is going into the hole housing,appealling,etc etc,this lifers and death row inmates,why dont they tell them that and say sorry,were broke,no more appeals,no more anything,a jury or your peers found you guilty and the sentence must be carried out.We need to quit babying them..do what they were sentenced immediately ..no harm no foul..just my thoughts.

portagelakesguy says "Quit putting god into this. I could care less about what god thinks or what you think. If god cared so much he wouldn't have given man the freewill to kill anyway. As far as I am concerned god gave up his right at that point."

Hey portagelakesguy, God cares about what you think.

"Only God knows... and he ain't talkin'..."

IS that like ,He ain't heavy,hes my brother? Hehe..now ,I bet you sing that song all night long :-)

@Pure Speculation..
Why Starship pain?

Meatball......... let me cut your other one off!!!

Why don't they do a nerve block on the arm so that he can't feel the needles, so they can work on him as long as it takes??

@peebs02 were you there?

deuteronomy:19:21 thus you shall not show pity life for life,eye for eye,tooth for tooth,hand for hand,foot for foot. im just saying.

@father of two. What you stated is all true, although that is the old testament, when man was under old law ( The Ten Commandments) which man is unable to keep. Go to the New Testament Matthew: 5:21,22. Luke: 6:26-37.

25 cents for a bullet,with the cost to be billed to the family.
How is that more expensive than the cost of housing, feeding, and healthcare for the rest of the convicts life?

Fly him to 25000 feet and push him out, stop messing around with these murderers.

Either we execute in a speedy manor or not. This 20 year wait for appeals garbage makes a mockery of justice for the victim.

Hardboot, I feel for your family!

I would show up and personally put the the line in my self and kill your aunts killer if I could.
How unbelievable it is that your family must be in total limbo with their feelings..and the pain this monster has caused you over all these long years.
I wish the judge could end your pain a.s.a.p.
Good luck and hang on, this has to conclude for you all soon.

@Father of Two,
Yes we were,and DaddysLittleGirl was there also..shes very nice.
Were you there and we missed you,cuz we all left at almost 5.

Wouldn't being on death row for years and years with your pending death date being unknown at times, and called off at the last minute, be cruel?Laying on a gurney, strapped down, being poked in the arms, having last rites read, last meal offered also sounds cruel. Whereas a rapid snapping of the neck by dropping the convicted on the gallows is quick and has a historical precident.

@Cendel -- thanks so very much for adding to the reasoned debate here, and for your very kind offer. I'm good, though.

Reality Check: I'm giving you Crime of the Century's coveted "post of the year" award for 2009.

I agree that there is more than one way to end a life. We could bring back the firing squad or the gallows. If the criminals do not want to be poked with needles, let them have a noose.

The only thing I don't like about the death penalty is that it causes someone else to take a life. I could never be an executioner and I have a hard time asking someone else to be that for me.

On the other hand, I don't want their sentences to be commuted to life in prison. That opens the door for them to get a compassionate release when they are at the end of their lives. You don't think so? Just look up the Manson family. All the women have asked the courts for release. They should die in prison as that is what the judge and jury decided.

@ Soundoff -- I agree completely with your last sentence and your comment about the fact that someone must be the executioner. I think most people, on both sides of the issue, recognize the pain and suffering of the victim’s family. Some have compassion for the murderer and their family. Very few think about the impact this has on the prison staff involved.

We have an imperfect system. It will never be anything other than that. Since it can't, the State must do what it can to stop an innocent person from being put to death. Even with all the appeals, it can and has happened. Life without parole, (as a sentence from day one, not as a commutation later) is a reasonable and less expensive option. Further, it puts the punishment back where it belongs -- on the prisoner. Death vs. maybe 65 years in a 6 x 9 for 23 hours a day thinking about the horrific thing you did to get your there. Lots of folks would choose the former rather than the later.

@debbinana - In the past 30 years, 123 inmates were found to be innocent and released from death row. How many innocent people are you willing to risk killing in order to speed the process up?

@portagelakesguy - Why don't you contact the Mansfield Reformatory and volunteer to serve as a guard the next time they're enacting the death penalty? It would cost the tax payers less and maybe it could help you overcome your anger issues.

Just get it over with, one method or the other. Death is death & he was convicted over 15 yrs. ago. PLEASE let's give the families closure so they can move on & start to heal. There is obviously no doubt as to his guilt, just how to do it. Is our prisons not smart enough to figure out another method?

Bridget - Great idea. I would love to. I am getting all warn and fuzzy already, just thinking of it. :o)

Better yet, how about I be the Executioner. If I could volunteer, I would gladly do so.

Yes, it is very hard to see someone innocent wrongly convicted of any crime. In our judicial system, which is suppose to be the most fair and best system in the world, it is hard to see how someone is convicted wrongly. That is why the jury is informed very strongly to absolute, without any doubt to look at all evidence and determine they can ensure the person is indeed guilty. It is obvious that is not the case and in those cases, the person should have never been convicted in the first place.

In cases were there is no doubt, kill and kill swiftly. There are plenty of such crimes where there is no doubt.

Meatball, If the criminal really spent 23 hours a day in a 6 x 9 cell for 60 plus years, it would be great. But the fact is, most prisons have more classes and extracurricular activities than the average Ohio high school does. Larry Reynolds works in food service at the prison and does origami....and he likes it!!!!! So life in our cushy prisons is NOT the answer!!! We need change in our correctional system. Prisons should not be air conditioned. Prisoners should not be able take craft classes, watch tv, email, etc. Prisoners should be on chain gangs...prisoners should make money for the State not suck it out of it's taxpayers. It's no wonder why so many criminals are repeat offenders...life is too good in prison!!!

15 yrs. ago, on my 14th birthday, my aunt loretta was taken away from us. that coward never shoulda made it to the court room. and to all u people out there, who think that this is wrong.....try having someone so close to you, beat, and raped....All she ever did was try to help him.... nothing can bring her back, but it sure as hell makes me feel better to know that that p.o.s. will rot in hell forever!Our fakily should'nt have to go through this again!get it over with, so we can put this behinde us, and try to move on. hopefully My Aunt Loretta can R.I.P....... and that punk gets wut he deserves....... We miss u Loretta...R.I.P.

@Portage Lakes Guy
How would you like to be convicted by a jury of your peers that were already predisposed to vote guilty when you didn't do it. This jury was selected because you had a public defender and had no money to hire a top notch attorney.

Rich people don't seem to even have the death penalty sought against them like OJ Simpson whereas most people who get sentenced to death grow up in Poverty and cannot hire their own attorneys. I am against the death penalty not because I don't believe that murders should be forgiven but because I feel our legal system and any legal system in the history of mankind is too flawed to take somebody's life other then death by prison. I don't think family's should have to wait 20 years for closure, life without parole in a 5x7 cell is closure too and it happens much faster. I believe you have to have all these appeals etc. to try to avoid executing somebody innocent. Many states and almost all developed countries get by without the death penalty, surely we can too.