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.
Others at end of life (in hospice and elsewhere) suffer worse fates than this condemned convicted criminal.
Botched abortions don’t always make the news (unless the mother is also killed) and certainly the media never says “WE MUST HALT ALL ABORTIONS UNTIL WE CAN GUARANTEE THAT THIS (botch) NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN!”
Murder is wrong. Defense of society is the highest form of Justice man can establish. Protection of innocents, the disabled and unable is a sign of a Higher Awareness of Love.
True forgiveness is required, but so is social retribution.
Death is a deterrent. Just ask any murderer who has been executed for his crime. Get it?
How we do it is relative. Hanging, shooting, electrocution or a slip of a needle or three, the end state required is the death of the criminal.
I agree that we must be able to eliminate false convictions, to forbid criminal executions is to make justice an unreasonable expense of societies’ health.
I live in a DP state and am not afraid of being unjustly convicted for a capital crime, as I live well above the general social standard for behavior; so why/what are you afraid/of?
AFA Islam- who are you kidding? That oligarchical system is fraught with inconsistency and double standard, a false positive indeed!
Good point.
Doesn’t your heart just bleed for this thug?
Good riddance!
Thanks for the post. Excellent. Glad to know.
While not being beyond corruption, you can see how it would work to require more citizen accountability not only in the conviction process, but in the execution. Rather than socialized system in which the actual execution is left to the State, and which fosters indifference among citizens, if they want laws upheld and really feel the persons are guilty then they are compelled be actively engaged in it.
This kind of relates to an old Star Trek episode in which two planets engaged in perpetual war made possible by antiseptic warfare. Computers would engage in war and assign deaths to each side, and which causalities then reported to "disintegration chambers." Kirk and Spock destroyed their computer system and forced them to deal with the dirty work of war, resulting in a truce.
Why don’t they just use a massive heroin overdose? If, that is, they insist upon making the criminal die in comfort!
I don’t think the death penalty is wrong or barbaric but I do agree that there are so many errors and examples of misconduct that in practice I oppose it. Just not in theory.
And as long as we do have executions, they should be by firing squad and not by lethal injection.
however, I have no qualms about shooting a wild turkey with my bow and arrow.
ps I like you, I've been reading you for quite a while.
Malpractice is an instrument of death.
It's just the opposite with me. When I chose to relocate some four decades ago, the fact that Texas has a so-called express lane for extinguishing evildoers was a major factor in making this great state my home. I'm 100% pro-life and, thus, logically, I am 100% for the death penalty. I don't even understand how it's possible to oppose abortion and, at the same time, oppose the death penalty. To me, it seems so self-evidently contradictory.
fibbing is telling the truth just as
killing is being pro life.
makes no sense to me, I wonder what the Heavenly Father thinks?
Thanks for the response and I think this link (from a preacher of my faith although I don't know the author) sums it up well:
What God Says About Capital Punishment by Jon W. Quinn.
The directive from God in the Ten Commandments is "Thou shalt not murder." Abortion is murder. Killing an innocent as did Clayton Lockett was murder. Oklahoma was 100% correct by killing (not murdering, a vital distinction) him. By doing so, capital punishment upheld the sanctity of life. His evil act demanded nothing less than his life.
I also think it constructive to review the states with and without the death penalty. Nearly all of the states without capital punishment are paradise for radical leftists such as Hawaii, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Vermont and, yes, Minnesota (all of which are obama/holder states). States that do have the death penalty are almost all reliably Conservative and predominantly Christian, including Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas (none of which support the tyranny of the obama/holder regime).
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