Posted on 11/17/2016 7:21:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
The botched execution of an Oklahoma man involving an experimental dose of lethal drugs was not inhumane, a federal judge ruled.
The ruling by a federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by family of Clayton Lockett, whose April 29, 2014 execution took nearly an hour instead of the minutes it should have.
Lockett’s brother, Gary Lockett, sued Gov. Mark Fallin (R-Okla.) and other state and prison officials saying the drawn out death of his sibling was “barbaric” and that the fumbled execution violated the inmate’s constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
Lockett, imprisoned at an Oklahoma state penitentiary for fatally shooting and burying alive a 19-year-old woman in 1999, was administered a cocktail of midazolam, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride, a mix of lethal drugs never before used in Oklahoma.
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Lol. I loved that movie!
Nitrogen is the way to go. No supply problems, no body response or thrashing around. Must be a problem for the Execution Attendants Union in that it is too simple and easy and does not employ enough people.
Straight thinking.
Thanks for posting.
Hey, he’s dead, ain’t he?
Why not just knock him out and cut his throat?
Black Leaf 40 injected will take six seconds! I saw a small syringe of it put down an injured 800 lb horse that fast!
Apparently it took him 18 years to die.
Potassium chloride is available in any hospital.
A cheap bullet, or a reusable rope. Done. No BS.
The results of a suit like this are pretty much a political test of whatever adjudication mechanism it arrives at.
Just want to comment one thing, however. If biblical criteria were exercised in determining whom to put to death, a lot of current executions wouldn’t be happening because there wouldn’t be at least two eyewitnesses (who are also supposed to cast the first stones in a stoning). That’s the scripture... if God made it hard to do unless it was so egregious as to incur two or more witnesses, there has to be a reason for it. It’s more about adhering to holiness than even defending society for its own sake.
And without the mercy of sedatives
Blowtorch. Pliers. Nailgun. Take 2 hours.
Perhaps if we were a bit leaned toward a ‘barbaric’ method of execution, we might actually restore the deterrent purpose of the death penalty.
Heck, we’re going well out of our way to make this as painless an exit as possible...until the reality of what awaits them on the other side, of course.
I do not understand why we don’t just use nitrogen. I just want the scum dead. Put them in an airtight room and pump it full of nitrogen. The criminal will be dead in less than 15 minutes with no muss or fuss. No drug required, and no gas more letal than wat already comprises 80 percent of the air we breathe every day.
As usual, the goverment makes this all much more difficult than it needs to be.
All forms of execution are acceptable, throw them into a wood chipper, 45 minutes, an hour, who cares, their victims suffered why shouldn’t they.
An evil murderer is dead, which means the execution was neither botched nor fumbled. A better term would “inefficient”, and there is, unfortunately, no ban on inefficient government.
Helium asphyxiation would work just as well and would make any last words much funnier.
LOL! Too bad Helium is a rare resource not to be wasted on scoundrels.
It’s not that rare. One blimpful would do for a whole lot of scoundrels, especially if you recovered as much helium as possible after the festivities.
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