Posted on 11/18/2016 9:05:09 AM PST by ColdOne
After 43 minutes of apparent anguish, the man died of a heart attack. Lockett’s bungled execution led Oklahoma to reconsider its lethal injection protocols, and spurred Lockett’s brother to file suit – alleging torture and human medical experimentation, among other claims.
In a decision filed Tuesday, a federal appeals court upheld the 2015 decision to dismiss the lawsuit, ruling that the lethal injection process did not qualify as cruel and inhumane. What took place during the execution, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit held, was a sort of “‘innocent misadventure'” or “‘isolated mishap.'”
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At the end of the day the execution was still accomplished.
Don’t take a life if you can’t take a joke.
(W/apologies to Michael Z. Williamson.)
This is why we need to bring back firing squad
Neiman was dropping off a friend at a Perry residence on June 3, 1999, the same evening Clayton Lockett and two accomplices decided to pull a home invasion robbery there. Neiman fought Lockett when he tried to take the keys to her truck. The men beat her and used duct tape to bind her hands and cover her mouth. Even after being kidnapped and driven to a dusty country road, Neiman didn't back down when Lockett asked if she planned to contact police. The men had also beaten and kidnapped Neiman's friend along with Bobby Bornt, who lived in the residence, and Bornt's 9-month-old baby.
So Lockett "suffering" for 43 minutes doesn't sound too bad to me.
The constitution may prohibit cruel and unusual punishment, but at the same time, does not guarantee a painless execution.
May I suggest just shooting them in the back of the head . Very humane, cheap and 100% effective. BOOM!!
Pure dry nitrogen.
Works every time.
Isn’t poisonous.
Is dirt cheap.
Get with it, people.
Consider if you will the execution of Damiens.
Imagine if potential rapists wondered for a moment whether they might meet such a fate.
“Lockett’s bungled execution...”
Bungled? He’s dead, Jim.
Government screws up everything it touches — including capital punishment.
Yes.
Nitrogen.
It’s most of what we breathe anyway.
Perp just dozes off, doesn’t wake up. Painless. Simple. Humane. Foolproof. Cheap.
If he suffered too bad.
Capital punishment is in our constitution. We should go back to the ways prisoners were executed at the time the constitution was written. The founding fathers did not think hanging or firing squad was cruel or unusual.
It is when the state tries to find a humane way to execute someone that they run into problems.
Remember their goal is not to make execution painless, their goal is to make executions so expensive governments just give up trying.
What is inhumane is the horrible torture & absolute fear his young victim suffered. That was a sickening case.
Warden: "What in the blue bloody f^&* was that?!"
Guard: "An execution, and a successful one."
Warden: "Successful?!"
Guard: "Well, the prisoner is dead."
-- The Green Mile
How come we never hear about a botched doctor assisted suicide? Maybe we can outsource executions to Oregon.
“‘innocent misadventure’” or “‘isolated mishap.’”
Just like his crime then?
Sounds fair.
On election day we passed a law de-linking the method of execution from the method. From now on we can change the method without changing the verdict.
Ultimately the stupid drug companies are at fault for not supplying the proper drugs forcing prison officials to find alternate less effective drugs.
Firing Squad.
Just sayin’.
Nitrogen = wonderful solution to the problem.
Non-poisonous, so nobody who has to collect the body has to worry about breathing it in, unlike cyanide gas.
I know it works, too. An employee of a chemical company where I worked in the early 2000s died after he rescued another guy who had passed out in a reactor that was being flushed with nitrogen (they do that for flammable mixes).
Poor dude pushed the unconscious employee up and the other workers got him, then he passed out himself and died in the reactor while the first guy was receiving medical attention.
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