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.
Liberals have no problem having babies die after “Botched abortions” yet they have a problem with a cold blooded murderer who buried his victim alive not dying fast enough
So would old fashioned gallows.
Poetic justice....this POS didn’t suffer enough. He shot a white female and watched as his buddies buried the victim alive. Too bad he wasn’t drawn and quartered.
They should die by whatever method their victims died.
If at first you don’t succeed...try,,,try,, again Thomas H. Palmer
Roll on Two!
Sounds like it was done just they way it ought to have been.
I agree with the above. Today, there is simply too much pity expended on murderous and other violent criminals. All the criminal elements are is miserable little pieces of fate who are getting what they deserve-death!
It is a bad man that feels pity for a man getting what he deserves.
Years ago I read about a young Russian couple who bought an advertising-via-blimp business. Tragically through their ignorance, one day, while inspecting the interior of the helium-inflated blimp, they passed out from lack of oxygen and died peacefully. Ever since I have thought that that would be a good way to dispatch someone condemned to death.
My favorite death penalty trial story:
In jury selection, a prosecutor can ask a prospective juror if they are philosophically opposed to imposing the death penalty. Down in rural Texas, a prosecutor had such an exchange with an old rancher who was on the jury panel. The exchange went something like this:
Prosecutor: Sir, do you believe you could impose the death penalty on this man?
Rancher: Do they still do executions in this State on Saturdays?
Prosecutor: Well, yes, I suppose they do.
Rancher: Well, I’m free most Saturdays, so yes, I could if it was on a Saturday.
On the good side his eyeballs didn’t pop out. That would have been over the top.
Was he supposed to survive the execution?
Agreed.
And before we complain about the suffering he endured, we need to have an expose of his victims.
Nitrogen execution would also allow the condemned to donate his / her organs if they chose. Even hanging and the guillotine would allow that. Why we use incredibly toxic chemicals is confusing to me.
I chose to live in a State (MN) that does NOT have the death penalty. I'd hate to move to Texas and be falsely convicted of murder and then be put to death.
barbaric.
killing is wrong.
Technically, what happened did botch the execution of condemned man #2 - also scheduled to die that day.
...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.
Whats wrong with a firing squad? Death should come from an instrument of death.
I wholeheartedly agree. Execution should not have the appearance of a clinical procedure. It's an overtly violent act, and should always be presented that way.
"Why don't you just shoot him? I'll go get a gun, it will be fun....BANG...DEAD...DONE!"
I commend your commitment to Life. It is noble.
Speaking for myself though, I am very much in favor of the death penalty — and do not see it as barbaric.
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