Clayton Lockett was a nice buy who really didn't do anything that bad when he raped and sodomized that girl before blasting her face off ... and he didn't deserve to die the way he did even thought he brought it on himself ... and it's therefore inexcusable that people keep wanting to execute murderers like him!
“concealing what the warden later described as “a bloody mess.”
Funny way to spell ‘justice’ if you ask me.
Cruel and unusual punishment is prohibited. but there is no guarantee of a painless execution.
Clayton Lockett was a murderer. He abducted a 19-year-old girl, shot her, and then watched as his accomplice buried her alive. He was due no more mercy than he showed his victim, perhaps even less.
Pray for the end to all death penalty sentencing. It’s just not our job.
Bring back the guillotine.
Being back the firing squad. Problem solved.
Ya know...dead is dead...but a rope is cheap and effective.
The history of the death penalty for the last few centuries or so has been the perpetual attempt to somehow make the execution more humane: the guillotine was supposed to be more humane than the noose, the firing squad more humane than the guillotine, electrocution more humane than the firing squad, gas chamber more humane than electrocution, injection more humane than the gas chamber.
From 1890 to 2010, the rate of botched[a] lethal injections in the United States was 7.1%, higher than any other form of execution, with firing squads at 0%, the electric chair at 1.9%, hanging at 3.1%, and the gas chamber at 5.4%.[6]
(the Wikipedia article on Lovett.)
Botched? He’s dead ain’t he!
I’m personally saddened that he didn’t suffer much harder and much longer.
Gee, that’s a real shame for the poor guy. Real shame.
I don’t see how it is a botched execution if the person convicted and sentenced to death is dead at the end of the execution. a botched execution would be if we discover days later he did not die but is recovering at a hospital after the state attempted to execute him.
.303 British loaded backwards at close range.
They should suffer worse than those they murdered and suffer emotionally worse than each family member of the victim.
And that is not enough.
It’s only “botched” if the condemned lives.
When bo releases those Gitmo folks, hire them for this type of work. Like Jihad John does. Rehabilitation at work.
“Just trying to turn their lives around”
He got off easier than his victim.