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TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA – Dustin Honken filed one more unsuccessful court appeal today to escape his long-overdue lethal drug injection, begging the court that the pain from his death would be too much to bear.
The D.C. Circuit court today shot down Dustin Honken’s appeal to delay his execution set for 3:00 PM today. The court document, filed yesterday July 16 and denied today, says Honken virtually got on his knees and pleaded for mercy to the court:
Mr. Honken’s claim chiefly involves scientific evidence describing a “virtual medical certainty” that the injection of pentobarbital will immediately cause the prisoner to experience pulmonary edema. With the pentobarbital dosage “insufficient to ablate awareness” and “the sensations of pain.” Plaintiffs will consciously feel themselves suffocate as fluid rapidly floods their lungs and their airways swell shut. The resulting pain will be “one of the most powerful, excruciating feelings known to man”—akin to the experience of drowning or being waterboarded.
Honken’s execution will be the third federal execution this week. He’s 52 years old.
