Posted on 03/18/2014 7:39:00 PM PDT by 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.
Screw that! I need it for My foot pain worse!
I’ll donate a box of ammo.
I volunteer to make some “killer drugs”
Seriously, this is so stupid and dishonest.
Seriously, just give them a "Michael Jackson" propynol cocktail.
Is there a nearby zoo with lions?
How about using an axe.
Put the IV in and just drain their blood
Lead poisoning works just fine, and it’s quick.
I am against the death penalty. BUT, if it’s going to be carried out I don’t see the point of holding it up because some drug is unavailable. I have to assume a bullet through the brain is painless, and dare I say, humane. It’s messy for sure. It is obvious the only reason simple methods of killing are not used is to spare us citizens the uncomfortable and messy business of homocide.
Let them make a useful contribution.
Let them be organ donors. . . Piecemeal. . . a left kidney here, an eye there, skin graft over there, then a heart/lung finale!
Alternatively, toss ‘me into a cell with fifty rattle snakes. But, then that might be cruel to the rattle snakes.
When I read about what the killers did, a little messiness seems justified.
This is a political problem, not an economic one. Simply ban importation of any drugs from said companies (Cali does this with all kinds of products under the guise of “health”) and declare their patents on said drugs non-recognized in your state (though this would be better as a national response... but look who the president is...), making them available for any company to manufacture. Watch as their principle crumbles in the face of their bottom-line...
Inject them with anti-freeze and put them back in their death row cell
i hear ya
The drugs used, in lower doses, have medical uses. Lethal injection first involves the administering of a general anesthetic, and this is what the EU drug companies prohibit selling to prison executioners.
I say just give them an overdose of heroin. It's not like we don't have lots lying around.
Thanks.
yes heroin should work rather well can considering the fact that the confiscated stash of same is rather abundant and cheap....it appears to be the perfect option.
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