Court Reschedules Executions of Two Oklahoma Inmates after State Can’t Find Supply of Killer Drugs

[DogByte6RER]

• The executions of Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner were put off until April 22 and April 29. The state has had difficulty finding the ingredients of the cocktail used to execute prisoners.

OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma court on Tuesday rescheduled a pair of executions set for this week and next so state prison officials will have more time to find a supply of drugs for the lethal injections.

The decision came in a lawsuit in which two inmates had sought more information about the drugs that would be used to execute them later this month. The inmates had sought a stay of their executions, but the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals said that request was moot because the state Department of Corrections doesn't have enough drugs on hand to carry out their death sentences.

"The attorney general's attestations give this court no confidence that the state will be able to procure the necessary drugs before the scheduled executions are carried out," the court wrote.

Oklahoma and other states that have the death penalty have been scrambling for substitute drugs or new sources for drugs for lethal injections after major drugmakers — many based in Europe with longtime opposition to the death penalty — stopped selling to prisons and corrections departments

While the judges didn't rule on the merit of the inmates' stay request, they pushed their executions back a month — Clayton Lockett to April 22 and Charles Warner to April 29.

"We were hoping for a stay until the district court can rule, but this effectively gives us that," Seth Day, one of the lawyers for the inmates, said in a telephone interview.

[DogByte6RER]

Problem solved! Pump the r@t b@stards full of this readily available, easily purchased off the shelf product.

[posterchild]

Isn’t that mostly NaOH or have I forgotten my chemistry?

[doc1019]

They run out of rope and bullets?

[exit82]

Just shoot them.

[South40]

Give them their choice.

[MeshugeMikey]

this makes no sense to me....amd I missing something>
"Oklahoma and other states that have the death penalty have been scrambling for substitute drugs or new sources for drugs for lethal injections after major drugmakers — many based in Europe with longtime opposition to the death penalty — stopped selling to prisons and corrections departments"
who ARE they selling the poison to.... DHS???

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Seriously, their state legislature should make a quick law authorizing a firing squad. Problem solved.

[Mark]

Didn’t the libs give us the solution in the Terri Schiavo incident? Starving is humane and even euphoric.

[Frank_2001]

“They run out of rope and bullets?”
They haven’t even got PAINT for the friggin’ JAIL!;)

[Steely Tom]

From http://www.ahc.umn.edu/rar/euthanasia.html:

Acceptable Methods for Euthanasia of Animals

 

Method	Small birds, poultry, rodents,  Rats weighing < 200 gm, Rabbits < 2kg	Rats weighing > 200 gm, all Guinea Pigs	Rabbits weighing >2 kg	Dogs, Cats, Nonhuman Primates	Farm Animals (e.g. swine, ruminants and horses)	Amphibians, Reptiles, Fish
Carbon Dioxide	A	A	AWJ 5	A	A2 for swine <32kg UNA	A
Barbiturate Overdose/ Euthanasia Solution, Intraveneous (100 mg/kg)	A	A	A	A	A	A
Barbiturate Overdose/ Euthanasia Solution, Intraperitoneal (100 mg/kg)	A	A	A	AWJ 4	A3 for nursery pigs AWJ 4 for adults	A
Anesthesia and Exsanguination	A	A	A	A	A	A
Anesthesia and Intraveneous KCl (1-2 meq/kg)	A	A	A	A	A	A
Anesthesia and Decapitation	A	A	A	UNA	UNA	A
Anesthesia and Cervical Dislocation	A	A	A	UNA	UNA	A
Decapitation of Conscious Animal	A 1	A 1	UNA	UNA	UNA	AWJ 1
Cervical Dislocation of Conscious Animal	A 1	UNA	A 1	UNA	UNA	UNA
Other	For guidelines on euthanasia of rodent fetuses and neonates click HERE.    UNA - Small bird thoracic compression				Stunning or electrocution followed by exsanguination may be used for on-farm or slaughterhouse euthanasia.  Rifle shot may be used for field euthanasia where restraint is not possible	A - Immersion in MS-222 (tricaine) or benzocaine at 2 g/L water  A - hypothermia of amphibians or fish weighing <4 g (0.1 oz) in liquid N A - rapid chilling (not freezing) of zebrafish

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

A syringe of Black Leaf 40 works well.

The Cherokees used to execute their criminals by standing them in front of a tree, blindfold them and pin a paper heart over the heart. Then a Cherokee firing squad would do the job.

Then there is the way Hanging Judge Parker did it in Fort Smith.

[taxcontrol]

Nitrogen Asphyxiation - Strap in the condemned, put on a brain wave reading device, apply a breathing mask at 1.1 atmospheres. When the time comes for the execution to be carried out, switch the airflow to 99% nitrogen. Then all you have to do is wait for the brain waves to go flat.

cheap (nitrogen makes up over 70% of the atmosphere) No pain, no mess, condemned goes to sleep and never wakes up.

[Chode]

last i knew, morphine still works... and it's more than they deserve

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Cherokee crime and executions...1890

http://books.google.com/books?id=sN7AFvPpHy8C&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=cherokee+executions+1890&source=bl&ots=zCiBVpxahi&sig=L4KxPk0bDlsY8LUm-bKKlP4V5yY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XQkpU_vWJqqU2AXyn4HQCA&ved=0CEQQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=cherokee%20executions%201890&f=false

[headstamp 2]

Are there no anesthesia drugs available anymore?

[dfwgator]

Then frickin’ shoot them. Geez.

[The Great RJ]

Certainly the state has confiscated illegal drugs like meth, heroin, crack etc. Why not put these drugs to good use? It would be hard to make an argument about them being cruel and inhumane as thousands of addicts are willing to do almost anything to get them.

[_longranger81]

Put them on Obamacare.

[Dick Bachert]

Execute them in the very same manner they MURDERED their victims.

Sound about right to me.

[blackdog]

Give them each two grams of heroin, and a hooker dressed as a hot nurse with the hardware to deliver it. It seems to work pretty well when killing off Hollywood’s finest.