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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Actually, it was AC. Edison wanted to prove how dangerous alternating current was, as developed by his rival George Westinghouse, was.
“And I am supposed to care about a little suffering from on his part exactly why?”
The Asspress loves these monsters. Anywhere evil turns up, they applaud it.
***Thomas Edison’s infamous DC electrocution,***
Edison used AC power to show that Westinghouse’s proposed AC power grid was too deadly and dangerous! The victim did smoke and was not killed till several tries.
Edison wanted a DC power grid.
That is the fastest most humane way to kill someone.
We use succ's ( Succinylcholine ) because it doesn't last long but works fast.
FWIW-
If lethal injection is good enough for beloved, innocent pets, it’s better than killers deserve.
We know how to gently put down our dogs and cats. All of this is rather dumb though. We know how to execute people....hanging or firing squad.
I just don’t have an sympathy for the suffering of one who is sentenced to death for murder. I know that isn’t very Christian of me but it is something I guess I have to work on.
Whadda ya mean, botched? Edouard Delacroix is dead.
sounds like it worked, to me.
pneumatic stun hammer. just like that guy had in fargo.
Just use the same drugs Kevorkian used in ‘assisted suicides.’ Liberals didn’t seem to find that inhumane.
Yes he chose that method. I remember it actually and I thought he made the right decision.
Nitrogen asphyxiation is also good.
http://pandawhale.com/post/29421/what-bill-gates-learned-from-thomas-edison "By the way, Edison was not a great human being. He was greedy, petty, and an absolute jerk to Tesla: Simply put Edison (with a few other moguls on his side) didn’t want to see Tesla’s Alternate Current succeed, because it posed a (fiscal) threat to the viability of his Direct Current (which Tesla had previously souped up for him). A bitter public battle took place, with George Westinghouse of the Westinghouse Company on Tesla’s side. Edison sought to use spineless scare tactics to convince the public his AC units weren’t safe. In order to “prove” this “fact,” he had a number of animals electrocuted, including a circus elephant (which was to be put to death for killing a some people). Ultimately, Tesla won this “War of Currents,” only because he indeed had the better power mechanism. Although the current of success swept into a place of high regard, he forewent obscene wealth so as to–in a show of unprecedented humility–save the Westinghouse Company (which would have gone broke with the royalty payments). Instead, Tesla made a few grand by just selling his patents outright. Tesla was a good man. Edison was ambitious but he was not a good man.
And dogs! Don't forget the ravenous wild dogs!
It works! I've seen it!!
Right! A killer dies and there is a scream from the huggers. Upside down society, he died and so what. He got executed and it might have been botched but what did the killer do to get there?
Pancuronium bromide drip for twenty minutes should do it don’t ya think?
Wrapped with several hog carcasses and you got a plan!
Shakespeare too.
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