Posted on 07/03/2007 8:23:23 AM PDT by Krista33
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The mother of a US man whose 2006 execution took 86 minutes and involved sticking needles into him 19 times has sued the prison team which oversaw the execution for civil rights violations.
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On Monday Irma Clark filed suit in the Cincinnati, Ohio, district court, alleging her son Joseph Clark was exposed to "excessive suffering" violating the US constitution when he was put to death on May 2, 2006, at a state prison in Lucasville, Ohio, according to court documents.
The suit claims that two prison administrators and 12 members of the execution team ignored the fact that Clark, who had been sentenced to death for a 1984 murder, had long been an intravenous drug user making it difficult to carry out the execution by lethal injection.
The filing said it took the execution team 25 minutes on their first attempt to place shunts in Clark's arms to inject the three drugs used in the execution, because of heavy scar tissue on his arms from drug use.
"The first execution attempt failed, probably due to a collapsed vein," the complaint read. "The execution team discovered the problem when Mr Clark lifted his head from the gurney and repeatedly stated, 'It don't work.'"
Clark also asked if there was some other way they could put him to death, according to the suit.
In a second try, it took the team another half-hour to find a usable vein, and as they did, "witnesses could hear Mr Clark's groans from behind the curtain."
After Clark was finally pronounced dead, 86 minutes after the process began, an autopsy showed 19 needle puncture wounds from the process.
The suit alleges the team did not follow procedures and was negligent in handling the execution.
"As a result of defendants' deliberate indifference to the substantial risk of a problematic execution, Mr Clark needlessly suffered humiliation, pain and suffering, and emotional stress," it said.
The suit asks for 150,000 dollars in damages.
Several US states have recently halted executions due to problems with the lethal injection method.
I didn’t see mama complaining when prison officials kept him from hanging himself. See, if they’d just let him succeed we wouldn’t have all this fuss now.
Carolyn
The only aspect of motherhood that is reprehensible, is the woman weeping at the gallows,”...Johny is a good boy, he could have never ______!”
The rope or firing squad works well also.
“Jam a scissors into the base of his skull and suck out his brains. The liberals preferred form of execution”
When I read this I thought of my 4 year old daughter and my 2 year old son and I just can’t imagine doing something like that to them. How Freakin horrible!! God is not happy
Time to give death row the options of hanging and firing squad
Just don't confuse "86" and "69" and you'll be just fine.......
In this undated photo released by the Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, Joseph Lewis Clark, executed in May 2006, is shown. Clark's mother has sued the head of Ohio's prisons in a lawsuit filed Monday, July 2, 2007, in a Cincinnati federal court that said the execution amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction)
How about 77?
It’s like 69, but you get 8 more.......
somebody needs to sue the family for raising sucha piece of shit.
“she had no role in her son’s crimes”
She didn’t ‘suffer’ the 86 minute execution, either. It seems she is suing in the name of her son, who DID commit the crimes.
I’m not a lawyer, but it seems she would have to establish a probate in her son’s name to sue in his behalf. Therefore, any proceeds to his estate should be counter-suable by survivors of his victim(s).
Go play somewhere else.
And the problem is?....Not a dime!
Nice handle, troll.
There are no such civil rights. That’s because civil rights are those granted to citizens, as opposed to human rights, such as the rights to life, liberty and freedom from cruel and unusual punishments.
My friend, they do it by feel- tapping the vein, so it rises. When we had to put our beloved little Taffygirl to sleep in February, I watched her do this, and she was kind enough to explain it to me.
Not sure what you mean, I’m not into believing movie fantasy and dramatization of leftist BS propaganda. It was a good movie and that is all it was,
There was a scene in “The Green Mile” where the damping sponge was not dampened. Let’s just say the condemned wound up “Well Done.”
What a horrible woman! What about her son’s victims?
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