[Impala64ssa]

Well, DUH!, He did eventually croak, so was this execution really botched?

[Farmer Dean]

Bring back firing squads.

[heartwood]

Medicalized executions are a perversion.

What’s wrong with a firing squad? Death should come from an instrument of death.

[skeeter]

Hilarious headline.

[GeronL]

lol

[defconw]

Funny headline. I am sure the guy was just misunderstood, underprivileged. blah, blah, blah.

[henkster]

Sounds like a success to me.

[nhwingut]

Execution fails. Inmate executed. LOL!

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I love a story with a happy ending.

[a fool in paradise]

Is his lawyer going to get his punishment overturned now?

[alancarp]

The story about what put him on death row.

[Constitution Day]

“He’s dead, Jim.”

Justice has been served. This is a non-story.

[cripplecreek]

Define Irony.

[stevie_d_64]

(Executioner to executionee)

“You’re getting vewy, vewy, sleepie...You’re eyelids are getting vewy heavie...”

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I have to wonder, at this point, will some regulation be passed that you actually will have to have EMS personnel standing by, just in case another “botch” happens...

Will they be required to revive the executionee if they happen to die, before the state wants them to while they are strapped to the gurney???

“It is not without a sense of irony...” ~ Morpheus of Zion

[Gen.Blather]

I worked for a company where several employees died in the 70’s from a leaking nitrogen line. Nitrogen displaced the air and they all died at their stations apparently unaware there was a problem. There’s a suicide kit for sale that includes a plastic bag and a small canister of (Helium, I think.) It promises you’ll feel no pain and no discomfort. (I have to wonder if there’s a phone number on the package for complaints.)

In any case, it sounds like this approach would do away with 90% of the problems with executions.

[WayneS]

By definition a botched execution must result in the condemned man surviving.

If he dies then, by definition, the execution was a success.

[cuban leaf]

Oklahoma Botches Execution; Inmate Dies

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Great headline. ;-)

BTW, it would make sense if it said, “Oklahoma Botches Execution; Inmate Lives”.

[areukiddingme1]

So he suffered a little bit, ppfftt, “what difference does it make!”

[TexasCajun]

Could have been worse? ...or maybe not?

[wideawake]

Should it be surprising that an inmate would have a heart attack in these circumstances?

It was not "botched" - he would have been fully unconscious had he not had an extremely painful heart attack at that moment which wrenched him back into consciousness.

[DoughtyOne]

Exactly! Botched?

Why is it that I fully expect this was probably more humane than what his victim got.

I don’t know the guy’s story. They don’t execute unless someone was murdered.