considering they knew about the problem...or should have.

... because they can't access his veins for lethal injection?

If I was on his defense team I would have wanted them to fail so I could protest them forcing such an "old and sick" person to undergo a medical procedure that's only necessary for them to be killed since they can't get a vein.

Wait out the time on the death warrant.

After her chemo during her first cancer battle, the stuff practically destroyed half her veins, and now doctors have a hell of a time trying to find them when they need to.

Fortunately, her subsequent needs for vein access have not included being executed by some American prison, but I know that after certain extended treatments, veins can collapse or shrink and become inaccessible.

It's not a bad thing to have, but I do have to go to the oncology unit for them to draw blood samples, no matter which other docs want the test. Apparently the hospital lab folks that used to take blood the usual way, don't seem to have the lil tool thingy. to access the port. Strikes me as strange.

Happily the procedure is painless, and it does not take any longer than the old way.

respiratory system and starts to choke when he is laid on his back.

Ohio is just desperate to kill these guys. The tried an experimental two-drug protocol on Dennis McGuire and he gasped and choked for almost 15 minutes and that slowed them down for three years, but they are back at it. Plus, this is the second guy they couldn't set an IV line on, same thing happened with Romell Broom.

Just f'ing sick.

The man is 69 years old in failing health. I'll go out on a limb and say he is not a continuing threat to society. I'd bet he has less than 5 years left, and probably less than 3. What's executing him going to do? Not a goddam thing, except feed (not sate) bloodlust. Shameful. Where is the governor on this? Oh yeah. Never mind.