Oklahoma inmate dies after botched lethal injection, 2nd prisoner granted stay of execution
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[QUOTE]An Oklahoma prison inmate who was at the center of a controversy over the death penalty died of a heart attack after his execution went wrong, the procedure aborted after officials administered more drugs than necessary and bursting a vein.
Clayton D. Lockett, 38, was scheduled to be executed at 6pm local time Tuesday with a combination of lethal drugs, details of which were kept secret despite a flurry of court challenges and commentary from Oklahoma lawmakers in the weeks leading up to Lockett’s death.
Bailey Elise McBride, an Associated Press reporter, was on hand to cover the execution but quickly reported that, while the average execution takes just minutes to complete, media was kept waiting for word for nearly an hour on what happened.
Prison officials eventually admitted that they had to cancel the execution, which officially began at 6:23pm, because Lockett was still moving at 6:37 and looked up to say, “Something’s wrong.”
McBride reported that the inmate was “conscious and blinking, licking his lips even after the process began. He then began to seize.”
Department of Corrections officials said at a press conference immediately following the would-be execution that Lockett had blown a vein and that they are not sure where the drugs went in his body, or how much of the injection his body absorbed. Locket died of a heart attack moments after his convulsion began.
David Autry, Lockett’s attorney, told assembled media the execution was “botched “ and that the state was “bound and determined” to put Lockett to death, adding that the entire proceeding was “extremely difficult” to witness.
Autry later said Lockett was given “an overdose level” of midazolam, a benzodiazepine usually administered in smaller doses to make patients drowsy.
Lockett was scheduled to be executed just hours before Charles Warner. Following the incident Tuesday night, the prison director granted Warner a fourteen day stay of execution. A botched execution in Oklahoma could be a very big deal for various lethal injection cases across the US[/QUOTE]
This is barbaric. If you're going to execute someone the least you can do is give them a clean death.
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ban execution tia
[QUOTE=Lonestriper;44683925]ban execution tia[/QUOTE]
I'd prefer a murderer be put to death than be set free or have me paying for their food.
They will never be fit for society, rehabilitation can't work for someone who killed someone.
This has to be straight up murder though, not manslaughter or anything near accidental murder.
Nevermind...
I didn't know what TIA meant
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This video make a good suggestion if they do keep executing people.
[QUOTE=Subby;44683941]I'd prefer a murderer be put to death than be set free or have me paying for their food.
They will never be fit for society, rehabilitation can't work for someone who killed someone.
This has to be straight up murder though, not manslaughter or anything near accidental murder.
Nevermind...
I didn't know what TIA meant[/QUOTE]
I'm glad that's you're omniscient enough to know that a murderer can "never be fit for society."
Just lock them away without food, if their family doesn't come and bring them food then tough shit. Then you could argue that is isn't fair on the family etc... They just don't deserve any form of comfort and they deserve some sort of lasting pain
Death sentence is stupid in the sense they get a quick and painless death (okay electric chair isn't that, talking about injection), what about the people they've killed?
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They will never be fit for society, rehabilitation can't work for someone who killed someone.
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If murderers can even slightly think that they can be the judge of if someone lives or not in my opinion is absolutely disgusting, how can be putting them in a place filled with violence even begin to rehabilitate them?
I don't see how you can gain emotions of empathy and remorse.
A bullet to the head doesnt get botched.
But ideally, there should be no executions
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;44684072]A bullet to the head doesnt get botched.
But ideally, there should be no executions[/QUOTE]
Ideally there shouldn't be any murders.
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They will never be fit for society, rehabilitation can't work for someone who killed someone.
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if there's such an issue with using new chemicals to execute people, why not use high doses of morphine or drugs used to put down animals?
don't get me wrong, i'm against the death penalty but when the state insists on killing people the least it could do is actually do it right.
I know the death penalty/execution has been around for many millenia, but I really don't see what gives anyone the right to tell someone they're going to execute them and then do it. Being in prison for many years would obviously make anyone want to die, but I say let them rot in prison.
Yeah yeah, prison overcrowding, etc. Just build a huge underground maximum security facility where there's only one exit that is guarded by mole people.
[QUOTE=Subby;44684063]If murderers can even slightly think that they can be the judge of if someone lives or not in my opinion is absolutely disgusting, how can be putting them in a place filled with violence even begin to rehabilitate them?
I don't see how you can gain emotions of empathy and remorse.[/QUOTE]
Anyone who thinks they can judge whether another person lives or dies should be executed
Flawless argument