Posted on 04/22/2022 8:25:14 AM PDT by Morgana
Death row's oldest inmate has had his execution stopped at the last minute because of a mistake in the preparation of the lethal injection.
Oscar Smith, 72, was supposed to be killed on Thursday in Tennessee's first execution since the pandemic began and had even had his last meal of a double bacon cheeseburger and apple pie.
Yet Tennessee governor Bill Lee granted a temporary reprieve for Smith, who was convicted of the 1989 killings of his estranged wife and her two teenage sons, after what was called an 'oversight' in preparations for the lethal injection.
The Republican governor didn't elaborate on what exactly forced the surprise stop but Amy Harwell, an attorney with the federal public defender's office representing Smith, said the issue was a 'mishandling' of the drugs.
Lee said: 'Due to an oversight in preparation for lethal injection, the scheduled execution of Oscar Smith will not move forward.
'I am granting a temporary reprieve while we address Tennessee Department of Correction protocol.'
The inmate had been scheduled to receive a three-drug injection at a maximum security prison in Nashville.
Smith became death row's oldest inmate after Texas executed Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, on Thursday evening for the June 1990 fatal shooting of Houston police officer James Irby, 37, during a traffic stop.
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Hey! We have to get rid of it somehow.
I have never understood the difficulty with lethal injection. Just hook them up to an IV bag of high concentration fentanyl and bolus it. You go to sleep and die of respiratory arrest, first time every time.
I suppose he requested a “Big Bird” syringe and they couldn’t find one for him.
Quick math indicated this Douchebag did a triple murder when he was 39. So we are supposed to feel sorry for him now that he is 72?
Bernie Sanders is thinking the same thing except he gets to live and get another house
Nope, he has had his LAST meal. Nothing but snack for him now.
That’s right!
“Hey, where’s my lunch?”
Guard: “What part of ‘last meal’ don’t you understand?”
The method most used in carrying out the death penalty is old age.
(Hey,that’s good!)
Texas has three that have been sitting there since the '70s.
I will give credit to Schwarzenegger for one thing and that was not bowing to the pressure to spare Tookie Williams from the needle.
Just give hime another dose of the COVID vaccine! That will do the job.
We all “everybody gotta die sometimes” so why try and extended the life and give courtesy to those who so callously and wrongly killed others? Such as taking the lives of 2 teenage boys with so much to live for.
No leftists has ever explained that well to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVDBuOMgz_g
Put some Chinese OxyContin in his burger…
I have never understood the appeal of the last meal.
If I was about to be killed I would not want to eat anything.
I think I would still want water. Hope I never find out.
Maybe he didn’t have his covid injection.
Oh, geesh, why waste more money than a 22cal to the back of the head?
“Ok, today is it. Turn around.”
So a guy that killed three people when he was, what 39, gets to live until he is 72, i.e. another 33 years while his victims’ lives were snuffed out in an instant. Real justice there. Killer has a full life, vitcims not.
Nah, give me a cigarette, a hood and a firing squad.
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