Posted on 04/29/2014 7:03:25 PM PDT by lbryce
An Oklahoma inmate whose execution was halted Tuesday because the delivery of a new drug combination was botched died of a heart attack, the head of the state Department of Corrections said.
Director Robert Patton said inmate Clayton Lockett died Tuesday after all three drugs were administered.
Patton halted Lockett's execution about 20 minutes after the first drug was administered. He said there had been vein failure.
The execution began at 6:23 p.m. when officials began administering the first drug, and a doctor declared Lockett to be unconscious at 6:33 p.m.
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.
"There was some concern at that time that the drugs were not having that (desired) effect, and the doctor observed the line at that time and determined the line had blown," Patton said at a news conference afterward, referring to Lockett's vein rupturing.
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Kinda like that!!
Wouldn’t take that long............
Yes.
Am I missing something?
Liberals are involved.
So something that can be done simply and cleanly is being made into a huge complicated process with high chances of something not working as it should.
You know, like every other thing that liberals stick their mitts into.
But the vermin would be aware for a fair amount of the trip.
Reportedly, that's how Saddam's half-brother became two quarter-brothers.
Botched? He’s dead, right? That’s the end game of an execution, AP.
True dat............
You put it much more nicely than I might have... but.. as you concluded, yeah!!!
Well, he is DEAD. No problem in my books. I don't care if he "suffered" a bit.
Wellthen, thank God you’re not the Governor
Doesn’t sound like a failure to me. But why do we need fancy cocktails? How about a good ol’ fashioned morphine overdose? Send ‘em off with a smile.
Use the same drug used to kill dogs at the pound. My sister had to put her dog down due to an injury. She said her dog died immediately.
Personally I say can just burn the sob’s. Kill all of them where the proof is absolute.
He wasn’t concerned about the suffering of his victim.
It wasn’t botched, HE’S DEAD!!!!
That’s a cattle bolt gun or precisely a captive bolt device.....nightmare for slaughterhouse bound bovines....the movie was No Country For Old Men
Fargo was wood chipper....they work...a mite messy and painful
Both are Coen brothers flicks.....dry and well done
Its easy to knock someone out with versed or prophynol
The potassium overdose easy.....or helium incubator
How they screw this shit up shows how poorly govt runs any healthcare
In reality....gulliotine...gruesome but fail proof
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