Execution "Botched"
- Oklahoma inmate Clayton Lockett died during a botched execution on Tuesday, minutes after a doctor had called a halt to the procedure, raising more questions about new death penalty cocktails used by the state and others.
Thirteen minutes after a lethal injection was administered at the state's death chamber in McAlester, Lockett lifted his head and started mumbling. The doctor on scene halted the execution, said state corrections department spokesman Jerry Massie.
Lockett died of an apparent massive heart attack about 40 minutes after the procedure started, he said.
Gee, we feel so sorry for him. Anti-death penalty advocates are anticipating the end of capital punishment in the US:
- The troubled execution was expected to have national implications, with lawyers for death row inmates having argued that new lethal injection cocktails used in Oklahoma and other states could cause undue suffering and violate constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
[...] "This could be a real turning point in the whole debate as people get disgusted by this sort of thing," said Richard Dieter, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, which monitors capital punishment.
Just for reference, this condemned criminal shot an 18-year-old girl in 1999 during a robbery spree and buried her alive before she expired. The other prisoner who was supposed to be executed tonight, raped and murdered an 11-month-old child - he was granted a 14 day extension after the problems last night.
We don't think most people, especially Oklahoma residents, are going to be "disgusted" to the point that they demand executions cease. They're going to return to other tried and true methods of removing murderers from the midst of decent people - electrocution, hanging, firing squads. Oklahoma is the heart of Bible country and they believe in Old Testament "eye for an eye" type punishments a lot of the time.The amount of discomfort that criminals feel isn't going to enter into too many thoughts.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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How about a quart of drain cleaner down this worthless murderers throat. Does anyone want to know how much his victim(s) suffered before their lights went out. This country has gone way over board to protect criminals rights. If you murder someone then you are going to die also. Who cares if you suffer. I sure don't.
A sanitized death is too good for the heinous crimes these and others commit. The horror they visit on their victims should be returned 10X upon them.
"Anti-death penalty activists" undoubtedly helped to cause the mess.
States have been cut off their supplies of overseas-made pentobarbital -- in the same way countries like France won't extradite some captured criminals back to the US for fear that they might be executed.
States are obtaining needed drugs from "gray market" and compounding pharmacies they won't reveal the names of because the staff there might be threatened or attacked, etc.
8 men with rifles never botch an execution. Rule .308; Is the line ready?
old school justice, firing squad.
While we agree with SCC regarding dead is dead. We would also interject that it takes a politician/lawyer to muck up an execution by lethal injection. It is common knowledge that IV injection of a large dose of mostly pure heroin will cause an almost instant and painless death. No heroin, than use a couple of grains of morphine IV. That also works.
My Grandfather died in 1978 at the age of 90. Before he died he told me when he was a young man living in Lucas KS. He was a deputy sheriff. He said while working there they hung a couple of horse thieves. He said some people would think that was crule and unjust, but they only got caught stealing horses one time.
Simple solution. Go back to hanging.
"...this condemned criminal shot an 18-year-old girl in 1999 during a robbery spree and buried her alive before she expired. The other prisoner who was supposed to be executed tonight, raped and murdered an 11-month-old child..."
"This could be a real turning point in the whole debate as people get disgusted by this sort of thing," said Richard Dieter, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center..."
Richard here is not "disgusted" by the unspeakable crimes -- it's the punishment that bothers him.
"Executive Director." Who pays the salary of this Dieter person?
What a can of worms to open, huh?
I am not especially religious, but sometimes you have to think that maybe the Lord works in mysterious ways.
@ SCC...Though I am pro capital punishment (although not in its current form).... I feel duty-bound to remind you that "an eye-for-an-eye" blinds the world in time. May we not reserve these pyres for situations which truly shock the conscience...absent the taint of the Burge (though many were probably on the tracks and steaming toward an injection sans the "avid enticement" of his minions, just or otherwise)? I am bound to remind you..."I dare to all that may become a man: who dares more is none!" Life long incarceration without the chance of parole is markedly less expensive than the death penalty for all of us tax payers. Don't you agree? James Allen
Dead is dead. End of story.
Take them to a vet. I have never heard a story of a vet failing to euthanize a pet correctly. I also believe that every cell in prison should have a noose and a stool with three legs in it. Every cell.
Wonder if anyone ever questioned Judge Roy Bean of the old west where he bought his ropes he used on the hanging tree outside his court house. I doubt it.
A MAP torch to these animals ballsacks would do the trick- SLOWLY and PAINFULLY!!!
I am against the death penalty as is. Instead these miscreants should be provided the best nutrition, exercise, mental health and medical care available. Then use them for parts. When someone needs a kidney, lung, heart, liver, etc, go to death row for the organ. Use these scumbags to do some good. When they give up enough organs, death comes natural. I'll never cry for a person ond death row.
Some rich guilty people, some rich lawyers and some warped judges have a vendetta against execution and the death penalty. They will go to great lengths to keep murderous animals and the scum of the earth alive, often at societies expense. I don't know why they think this way.
Life long prison is more expensive than execution only if you drag the time for execution out for 20 or 30 years and get battalions of lawyers and judges and courts involved. When execution is swift and sure, it is inexpensive. Besides even animals serving life terms eventually get paroled.
Keep it simple, keep it cheap, keep it constitutional --- noose or firing squad.
Come on over, have a seat.
I wonder what he was mumbling? Probably said that this was good shit and he wanted some more.
Give me a thirty eight with six rounds. I will use the first five to cause as much pain as possible. The sixth will be the winner.
Back to beheading.
Kinda reminds me of 15 or 20 years ago in a southern state when a convicted killer was set on fire during his execution by electric chair. The liberals thought the state would halt executions following this incendiary event. Instead the governor got on TV and warned criminals to be aware that there seemed to be a slight problem with their "lectric chair" and couldn't be sure it wouldn't happen again.
Oklahoma inmate Clayton Lockett died during a botched execution
That like saying he lived after the operation. That is the point of an execution, he dies!
Glad he suffered. If he had victimized a member of my family he would have never made it to court.
Cut his balls off and let him bleed to death.
Death penalty is a waste of prosecution resources, money and court time. Lock them up for life, and make them do hard labor until they are 70.
This ex-savage died a much more merciful death than did his victim. If I was his executioner he would have cried out for death a thousand times before he got it. As it is, I wasn't the executioner, so I'll just go and log another car...
Anonymous said...
How about a quart of drain cleaner down this worthless murderers throat. Does anyone want to know how much his victim(s) suffered before their lights went out. This country has gone way over board to protect criminals rights. If you murder someone then you are going to die also. Who cares if you suffer. I sure don't.
4/30/2014 12:06:00 AM
Actually, two AWOL M/1's forced at gun point two store clerks do drink drain cleaner during a botched robbery in one of the western states years ago. The inhumane acts of these savages never fails to amaze me. Save yourself-arm your family.
Undue suffering? Fuck these shitheads, let em die screaming, choking on their own blood. Hang em? Outstanding idea, with piano wire.
Glad he's dead, should of tortured this waste of life, kill the animal , in my opinion happy he is dead should if been taking a dirt nap long ago!
I don't care, he should suffer! What he did to his victim should come back upon him 100 tines. Too bad he didn't suffer longer.
I recall when Florida lit up some condemned murderer in Old Sparky when they still used the electric chair, the condemned burst into flames due to his fat starting to sizzle and fry inside out.
"Florida State Attorney General Bob Butterworth was unmoved, saying Medina's gruesome end would make killers think twice about operating in his jurisdiction. "People who wish to commit murder, they better not do it in the State of Florida, because we may have a problem with our electric chair,"
Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles said he wouldn't suspend executions, as was done for three months in 1990 when another condemned man ignited in the chair. "You know, putting somebody to death is not the most friendly thing," Chiles said, but added he would consider legalizing other methods of capital punishment. Medina, one of nearly 125,000 Cubans who came to this country during the 1980 Mariel boatlift, died a horrible death, with acrid smoke and the stench of charring flesh filling the execution chamber, witnesses said.
The liberals were aghast and worked to get a new governor and that was that for Old Sparky.
No, I do not agree that life long incarceration is less expensive than the death penalty. These scum are taking up priceless space on this earth that is already becoming overcrowded. Eradicate all scum like this and we won't need as many expensive prisons to house these deplorable creatures. Thus saving tax payers all sorts of money.
Botched?? In my opinion this was too humane for this animal. I would have much rather saw him bound, shot and buried alive. Now THAT is cruel and just what this piece of human scum deserves.
Strip him naked, cover him in honey, shoot him with a shotgun, and bury him alive about 3' from a fire ant colony...
There ya go...
How about we draw and quarter them on national TV? Live, no delay.
Then when the horses have done their thing, we take the remains, pile them up, light them on fire, and turn the whole thing to ashes.
Then the family of the victim of the scumbag that perpetrated the crime can piss on the ashes, and flush them into the local sewer drain...
That'd probably have a better effect on thwarting heinous crimes than fooling around with 15 years of appeals over the source of drugs, or whatever.
Nothing cruel about killing a murder. Nothing unusual about drawing and quartering - it's been done for centuries...
If life in prison really meant life in prison James, I could do without it, but it doesn't now does it?
I like the lethal injection method, it's certainly less shocking for the ladies, who always have an opinion that reflects some motherly nonsense and the effeminate men who just abhor brutality, outside of their boudoirs. Most of us would gladly send John Wayne Gacy to the netherworld but most of us would be reluctant to send your garden variety monster to hell. It would taint you in some fashion. A fairly normal person abhors that type of violence, unless it is in self defense. Some could, but most of us would find it an unpleasant task we'd be better off not doing. Firing squad, guillotine, hanging, electric chair and gas chamber are all fairly unpleasant for the executioner, lots of pain, noise, blood, melting eyes and convulsions. The murderer deserves it, the guy administering it doesn't. It scars the executioner psychologically. I'm sure pushing the button and asshole goes to sleep is not so jarring to the executioner.
How the f do you rape a 11 month old
Load up a syringe with Fentanyl. A lot of us have seen what heroin 'cut' with Fentanyl does; they don't even finish the injection before they're DRT (dead right there for non cops). No 'three drug cocktails', no compounding pharmacy needed, just plain ol fentanyl. The only bad part is the big rush they'd get for about a millisecond before everything stops, they don't deserve that, but there are negatives to everything.
The old West had it right!
Bring back "Hangings"!
Clean, quick and surely dead once started!
Get a ROPE!
Cheap, clean and fast!
Drugs are very inhumane and this is the latest example of administering a death sentence where there was undue stress and anxiety.
This undue stress and anxiety could be avoided if the executioner as well as the attending staff administered the Rule of 9s.
RULE of 9s: A couple of 9MMs rounds into the head should do the trick in a clean and efficient fashion.
Drugs have proven to be ineffective and inaccurate, whereas bullets are always a good choice.
Let's lift the burden of undue stress and anxiety on the executioner by giving him the correct tools to work with.
Next case.
Has anyone asked the family of the victim for their opinion.
Did they remember to put that wet sponge on his head?
Veterinarians put animals to 'sleep' on a regular basis with no problem. Let's get them to do the deed to two legged bums.
Should have out sourced it to the Chinese. They know how to kill people and pets! Everything they make contains malamine, lead and glucose/antifreeze or any combination there of?
Just SATAN taking his soul A.S.A.P
$6,000 one year of "rent"
$730 one year of meals
$300 one year of utilities etc.
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$7,030 conservative cost/year
40 years
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$281,200 40 years of prison
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$.75 one .45 cal bullet
$5.00 one mop
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$5.75 one less murderer
to all the people who think that life in prison is good enough for all these assholes i say adopt one. You can pay for the assholes to eat and sleep and never pay for their crime because i am tired of getting up every day and going to work knowing my money is paying for the asshole who killed my family member. I am so sure you would change your mind knowing you would have to dish out 20,000.00. Funny how the death penalty looks just fine to some when a person they love is killed.
Bring back Old Sparky !!!!
If what I read is correct? His female victim was killed by him in a heinous way....but the poor victim didn't die as planned, so he had two buddies finish her off by burying her alive. If this is true why could he not have been finished off by being buried alive? He should get no more mercy than he showed his victim.
Just a law abiding taxpayer weighing in.
Im glad that piece of shit suffered. Do you think he let his victim die without any pain. Fuck him and his whole blood line.
"The underlying moral precept is that the state shouldn’t act as savagely as the person who committed the murder."
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