Sodium Thiopental. It’s Not Just an Experiment Anymore!

Back in 1991 51-Year-Old Kenneth Biros of Oio met 22-Year-Old Tami Engstrom in a bar near the town of Warren. Offering to give her a ride home he robbed the woman and attempted to rape her. Engstrom didn’t want to cooperate and Biros ended up killing the woman and dismembering her, spreading the body parts around northeast Ohio and Pennsylvania.

What makes Biros different from any other run-of-the-mill douchebag murderer aside from the fact that he inflicted 91 wounds on the woman BEFORE he killed her and cut her body up?

Biros is the first person executed using the previously untested “one drug method”. The “new” method uses a heavy dose of Sodium Thiopental, the drug which is used to knock out death row inmates prior to administering the other two drugs in the old system. Biros was actually scheduled to be executed two years ago but since he’s been involved in a lawsuit challenging the three-drug method he received a stay of execution. I guess he got his wishes and the sorry piece of shit didn’t have to be killed using three drugs.

I wonder if using one instead of three saves us any money?