Cold Blooded killer suffered during his execution?
Posted on 05/01/2014 6:18:49 AM PDT by shortstop
He’s dead, isn’t he?
Clayton Lockett.
The guy in Oklahoma.
If he’s dead, how do they figure that his execution was botched?
And that was the official word: “botched.” Every news story used it, the White House used it, the activists used it, the Democrat politicians used it.
They said his execution was botched.
And yet he is, in fact, deader than a door nail.
And that’s just the way it should be.
Because, if we can wipe away our crocodile tears for Clayton Lockett, we ought to remember Stephanie Nieman for just a moment. She was the teen-aged girl who came home to fine Clayton Lockett and some of his pals burglarizing her home.
So Clayton Lockett shot her.
Three times.
With a shotgun.
We don’t have weepy texts from journalists, but we believe there was some agony involved. Maybe even some writhing and moaning.
Because Clayton Lockett blew her to pieces.
But not enough to kill her or, some fear, even knock her unconscious.
So he and his buddies buried her alive. And she would die there, alone and terrified, with dirt in her face.
But the White House didn’t mention that.
Rather, the White House went on about how the “botched” execution of Clayton Lockett was inhumane and wrong.
Bull crap.
The state of Oklahoma set out to kill him, and he died. Score that a win.
Did he wince and writhe?
Maybe so.
But, it turns out dying is a b-word, and hopefully Clayton Lockett learned that.
Of course, every indication is that he was unconscious through the entire procedure.
But if he did suffer, it’s because of progressives’ opposition to the death penalty.
See, in the years-long fight to end the death penalty, progressives have repeatedly pointed to its supposed cruelty. That has led to an abandonment of quick, certain means of execution.
As it turns out, the hangman’s noose – properly done – is instant and humane.
But that’s all gone, and now we use drugs.
When the Europeans will sell them to us. When the activists don’t harass the providers of the drugs into cutting off the supply.
And so it is that states are thrashing about for a new combination of available drugs.
In Oklahoma, they used the drugs Florida has had success with. One to make the condemned unconscious, another to paralyze him, and a third to stop his heart. Oklahoma either blew the dosage or the IV.
But no harm, no foul.
Because Clayton Lockett is dead.
And before we make him some folk hero, perchance we ought to recognize that 1. He had it coming and 2. We can make it a lot quicker if we really want to.
For example: Firing squad.
Though condemned as gruesome, death by modern firing squad is instantaneous. The bad guy doesn’t even hear the bang. He’s dead by the time the sound gets there.
Hanging, also condemned as gruesome, provides instantaneous death when done right.
And if we’re absolutely enamored with using drugs, how about heroin? It’s plentiful and, sadly, effective.
Go to your corner dealer, ask him how much you’re supposed to use, use five times that much, and pull the sheet over the dead man’s face.
Or maybe we should just go to the veterinarian.
We’ve all seen how quick that stuff takes down poodles, we ought to try it out on murderers.
Not to be crude – or disrespectful of the memory of your beloved pet – but if a certain amount will kill a 50-pound Labrador retriever in the blink of an eye, about four times that certain amount ought to have the same effect on the garden variety murderer.
And failing everything, just ask any Chicago gangbanger how to kill somebody. They’ve got a lot of expertise built up there.
Sadly, none of that will happen.
Instead, as the White House finds new ways to turn criminals loose, as punishment of criminals is denounced as a race way by other means, as we are offering free college to convicts, we will hear even more cries to end the death penalty.
And activists – by which I mean, the White House – will point to this “botched” execution and say that maybe it is time to move on.
They will be wrong.
Abandoning the death penalty across much of America has done nothing but embolden criminals.
Does the death penalty serve as a disincentive to crime? It sure does for the guy who gets executed.
And Clayton Lockett got executed.
His death wasn’t botched.
His life was.
And the other night he paid the price for that.
Just like he deserved.
words of wisdom!
or maybe this guys execution is what obamacare is to US healthcare-
Shut them in an air tight room, replace the oxygen with a noble gas, the go to sleep. Use the body parts, if they were willing to sign a release.
Excellent question that the liberals do not want to answer
OK killed a vile murderer, who deserved no mercy.
Obama killed Ambassador Stevens and three brave defenders at Benghazi. He deserves no mercy.
“Well in the hell happened”
“An execution - a successful one”
“How in the name of Christ can you call that a success?”
“Edward Delacroix is dead ...”
“Any time now is good, Lord.”
Ditto. - How about using crosses? Talk about “cruel and unusual punishment” . . .
The left believes in capital punishment, for unborn babies and old folks.
It’s just murderers that it loves so much that it feels sorry for them.
Yes. Christ can tell you all about CROSSES and how “cruel and unusual” they are. Beside that, this guy got more humane than he afforded the girl.
Even Rasputin’s execution was only partially botched....
If it was botched the man would still be alive...
That’s what the left does.
Cold Blooded killer suffered during his execution?
This whole death by lethal injection thing is just stupid. Use either the gallows or a closed chamber and slowly pump in nitrogen while removing oxygen. Criminal falls asleep, pump in more nitrogen and take out all oxygen. Perp dies in sleep.
” Yes. Christ can tell you all about CROSSES and how “cruel and unusual” they are. Beside that, this guy got more humane than he afforded the girl. “
I can think of much more creative ways of capital execution for such monsters.
9ft tall, 3 ft in diameter plastic tube with spray nozzles straying a fine mist of salty lemon juice. On the bottom a giant “micro toner” that removes .1 millimeter layers running constantly. Tube is lubricated with a slick lubricant.
Let gravity do the work... may take a while...
FR seems particularly rambunctious and blood-thirsty since the Bundy affair. We seem to have something of a maddened mob effect here.
The intention of the execution was not to be cruel and unusual, but since this means of execution is apparently not foolproof, then suffering may have occurred. I will respect what the law intends, but this devil will get no sympathy from me. If we want to reduce “botched” executions, then we should adopt some of the author’s suggestions of more sure-fire methods.
I agree on that.
When O. J. was acquitted by a mostly-black jury, most black people in the country celebrated. That he had killed two white people didn't bother them.
It's probably something similar with Obama--he looks at the fact that the killer who was excecuted was black, and since the victim was white, he could care less about her.
He's probably the most racist President since Woodrow Wilson.
It’s the old release-the-spring effect.
Those talking about the cross of Christ — I wonder if they have given their own sins over to Christ so that His suffering there will be sufficient for them?
Nonetheless I wouldn’t be highly surprised to see most or all former execution cases become life imprisonment cases over the next decades as the integrity of police and trial courts becomes an increasingly obvious joke — quite apart from “humane execution” issues. Sin matters.
Yeah, I fully expect that’s where we’re headed, though I myself am in favor of capital punishment.
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