Posted on 04/30/2014 10:15:39 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
An Oklahoma inmate whose execution was halted tonight because the delivery of a new drug combination was botched died of a heart attack, the head of the state Department of Corrections said. The execution began at 6:23pm when officials began administering the first drug, and a doctor declared Clayton Lockett to be unconscious at 6:33pm. About three minutes later, though, Lockett began breathing heavily, writhing on the gurney, clenching his teeth, and straining to lift his head off the pillow. After about three minutes, a doctor lifted the sheet that was covering Lockett to examine the injection site "and the doctor observed the line at that time and determined the line had blown," Director Robert Patton said at a news conference afterward, referring to Lockett's vein rupturing.
After that, an official who was inside the death chamber lowered the blinds, preventing those in the viewing room from seeing what was happening. Patton then made a series of phone calls before calling a halt to the execution about 20 minutes after the first drug was administered (all three drugs were administered). "After conferring with the warden, and [not knowing] how much drugs went into him, it was my decision at that time to stop the execution," Patton told reporters. He also issued a 14-day postponement in the execution of inmate Charles Warner, who had been scheduled to die two hours after Lockett was put to death.
Bring back firing squads.
Medicalized executions are a perversion.
What’s wrong with a firing squad? Death should come from an instrument of death.
Hilarious headline.
lol
Sounds like a success to me.
Execution fails. Inmate executed. LOL!
I love a story with a happy ending.
“Sounds like a success to me.”
Hahaha
Is his lawyer going to get his punishment overturned now?
As long as it's televised, with five registered voters chosen at random (like jury duty), nothing at all.
new appeal!!
“He’s dead, Jim.”
Justice has been served. This is a non-story.
Define Irony.
Okay. Well, then, Izzy; just WHAT do YOU suggest instead? Of course, that “suggestion” you made was surely tongue in cheek. Let’s see . . there’s crucifixion . . it WAS good enough for God Himself.
(Executioner to executionee)
“You’re getting vewy, vewy, sleepie...You’re eyelids are getting vewy heavie...”
I have to wonder, at this point, will some regulation be passed that you actually will have to have EMS personnel standing by, just in case another “botch” happens...
Will they be required to revive the executionee if they happen to die, before the state wants them to while they are strapped to the gurney???
“It is not without a sense of irony...” ~ Morpheus of Zion
Horrifying. That poor girl.
I worked for a company where several employees died in the 70’s from a leaking nitrogen line. Nitrogen displaced the air and they all died at their stations apparently unaware there was a problem. There’s a suicide kit for sale that includes a plastic bag and a small canister of (Helium, I think.) It promises you’ll feel no pain and no discomfort. (I have to wonder if there’s a phone number on the package for complaints.)
In any case, it sounds like this approach would do away with 90% of the problems with executions.
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