Posted on 09/05/2014 5:36:14 PM PDT by BraveMan
On the morning of April 29, Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) personnel began procedures to prepare for Lockett’s and Warner’s executions at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary (OSP) in McAlester, Oklahoma.
Lockett’s execution was scheduled to begin at 6:00 p.m. Lockett was removed from his cell that morning and taken to the Institutional Health Care Center (IHCC), located on prison grounds, for self-inflicted lacerations to the inside of his arms and his pre-execution medical examination.
Lockett remained at IHCC until later that afternoon, when he was returned to H-Unit to await his execution. Lockett was taken to the execution chamber, placed onto the table, and after failed attempts in other locations, an intravenous (IV) line was started in Lockett’s right groin area. On the order of Warden Anita Trammell, the administration of execution drugs began. Several minutes into the process, it was determined there was a problem with the IV patency. The execution was stopped and Lockett later died in the execution chamber.
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He did not go gently into that good night.
Screw him.
NEXT!
Lockett was taken to the execution chamber, placed onto the table, and after failed attempts to place an IV line in several locations, a corrections officer simply emptied the contents of a nine millimeter pistol into Mr. Lockett's head.
Rope is cheaper.
Rope. Pull. Snap. Bury.
An unsuccessful execution is when someone lives. This guy went out in a fitting manner.
Seems to me like it kept right on going.
The MSM is pushing this as “another botched execution.”
let’s ask him victim
Oh wait He brutally murdered her
If he died, the execution wasn’t botched, just took a little longer.
A hot shot of Heroin would do the job nicely. And the cops have plenty!
What, it's my fault??
Apparently, lethal injection doesn’t work that well if the condemned inmate fights it. Which this a-hole did.
The MSM seems to be going into ape-excrement mode over this. No one knows what happened in the “execution chamber.” Oklahoma isn’t revealing where it got the drugs; this makes it a “secret source.” Questions, questions.
They’re going to have the vapors over this, looks like.
Potassium cyanide vapors would have done the job nicely. If they are so damned worried about the executee suffering pain then why do they not use carbon monoxide? It just makes you very sleepy until you go to sleep. You don’t then wake up. CO would be as effective and cheaper to acquire and administer.
That’s because it is government’s practice to re-invent the wheel because it gives them the opportunity to spend money on studies and give contracts to their pals.
It is simply to simple and easy to go with tried and true ways of ending life.
People have ended (or tried to) with carbon monoxide. Those who have failed to kill themselves by this method testify that it is painless.
Carbon monoxide is a cheap industrial gas that is easily obtainable most anywhere. Designs for gas chambers should be readily available in museums and government archives.
As for safety carbon monoxide detectors are cheap and reliable.
Why make things complicated when there are safe, cheap and reliable methods easily at hand.
They could use the same drug vets use to euthanize pets. Works quickly every time.
They could give him an overdose of morphine.
There are many ways to humanly kill a convicted murderer.
And, of course, the IV administration site should be inspected continuously while it is in use. This is just common sense.
Ping.
They want bad ways, cruel ways, ineffective and expensive ways -- and then they can say: "Isn't the death penalty awful? Isn't it time we became enlightened like Europe and just stopped that whole thing??"
They are prepared to torture large numbers of convicts to death until WE rise up to their level of sophistication and agree that capital punishment is obscene.
Seriously, states should immediately pass laws authorizing the use of firing squads in death penalty cases, “When complications arise to the expeditious use of those other means of execution.”
The definition of “complications” can be very broad, to include judicial interference, withheld material or personnel support, concerns about chemical safety, you name it.
Bullets are cheap and require minimal preparation. Any LEO can fire a gun. And neither the guns or ammunition need to be special in any way. And even if there is concern about visible blood, the condemned can wear an opaque plastic bib.
Or his groin, works for me.
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