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Oklahoma Botches Execution; Inmate Dies
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| 4/30/14
Posted on 04/30/2014 10:15:39 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa
By definition a
botched execution must result in the condemned man surviving.
If he dies then, by definition, the execution was a success.
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posted on
04/30/2014 10:28:25 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't Balme Me, I Voted for Kodos)
To: Impala64ssa
Oklahoma Botches Execution; Inmate Dies
Great headline. ;-)
BTW, it would make sense if it said, “Oklahoma Botches Execution; Inmate Lives”.
To: alancarp
Re post #14: sounds like “botched” was his middle name. He got what deserved. Dead is dead no matter how he got there. By being a thug, criminal & murderer he wrote the end to his own life. Poor girl did not.
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posted on
04/30/2014 10:28:47 AM PDT
by
zlala
(Thank you for the ultimate sacrifice Capt. Aaron R. Blanchard, KIA 4-23-13, Pul-E-Alam, Afghanistan.)
To: WayneS
By definition a
botched execution must result in the condemned man surviving.
If he dies then, by definition, the execution was a success.
24
posted on
04/30/2014 10:29:17 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: Impala64ssa
So he suffered a little bit, ppfftt, “what difference does it make!”
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posted on
04/30/2014 10:29:52 AM PDT
by
areukiddingme1
(areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
To: Impala64ssa
Could have been worse? ...or maybe not?
To: Impala64ssa
Should it be surprising that an inmate would have a heart attack in these circumstances?
It was not "botched" - he would have been fully unconscious had he not had an extremely painful heart attack at that moment which wrenched him back into consciousness.
To: Impala64ssa
Exactly! Botched?
Why is it that I fully expect this was probably more humane than what his victim got.
I don’t know the guy’s story. They don’t execute unless someone was murdered.
To: Impala64ssa
Precisely. It’d have been botched if the criminal were still living.
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posted on
04/30/2014 10:34:03 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Farmer Dean
Public hanging would be fine with me, it appeared to work OK for a long time.
To: Impala64ssa
To: Impala64ssa
The execution was almost a success, as the inmate was recovering.
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posted on
04/30/2014 10:35:59 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Impala64ssa
To quote the great Dr. McCoy... “He’s dead, Jim.”
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posted on
04/30/2014 10:36:19 AM PDT
by
PubliusMM
(RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2016; I pray we make it that long.)
To: Impala64ssa
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posted on
04/30/2014 10:37:23 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Hazwaste
Exactly. I wish the courts would focus on the important parts: making sure that the right guy is convicted and punished. Not so much worrying about how the 2nd part gets accomplished.
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posted on
04/30/2014 10:38:02 AM PDT
by
alancarp
To: heartwood
Exactly!
Firing squad - boom - done
Hanging - whoosh - done
Electric chair - zzzzzzzz - done
Gas chamber - hhhiiissss - done
Lethal injection - maybe - maybe not
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posted on
04/30/2014 10:38:54 AM PDT
by
Polyxene
(Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
To: skeeter
Oklahoma Botches Execution; Inmate DiesIt doesn't sound botched at all.
To: Impala64ssa
Justice was delivered by a Higher Authority.And that justice was at least somewhat...if not substantially...more painful and frightening than the justice attempted by the State of Oklahoma.
To: Impala64ssa
We use humane means for executions not for the criminal’s benefit, but for our own, so that the disposition of justice does not succumb to the idea of blood lust.
If an accident happens that causes the criminal some undue agony, I’m not going to lose any sleep over it, as long as it was truly an accident and not an “accident”, if you get my drift.
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posted on
04/30/2014 10:45:49 AM PDT
by
kevkrom
(I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
To: a fool in paradise
Maybe there is a payday for him in it.
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posted on
04/30/2014 10:52:41 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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