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Death penalty opponents and lawyers for condemned prisoners said the botched execution of a convicted in killer in Oklahoma could have a far-reaching impact on death penalty states, potentially putting the brakes at least temporarily on further use of lethal injections.
Clayton Lockett, 38, struggled violently, groaned and writhed after lethal drugs were administered by Oklahoma officials Tuesday night, according to eyewitness accounts. State Corrections Director Robert Patton halted the Lockett's execution, citing vein failure that may have prevented the deadly chemicals from reaching Lockett. He eventually died of a heart attack.
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Richard Dieter, executive director of non-profit Death Penalty Information Center, a clearinghouse for information and an opponent of executions, said Lockett's manner of death would add momentum to efforts to halt lethal injection until the process is better understood and there is more transparency to what states are trying to do.
"Somebody died because of the state's incompetency," Dieter says, adding that Louisiana, Kentucky and Ohio are considering similar protocols. "I think they're going to have second thoughts and those executions will be delayed."
Newsflash, Rick: somebody died because he went on a crime spree of rape, pillage, plunder, and exceptionally heinous murder.
I don't even accept the claim that this was a "botched execution."
Hal: Okay, boys, okay. Now, what in the hell happened?
Paul: An execution. A successful one.
Hal: How in the name of Christ can you call that a success?
Paul: Eduard Delacroix is dead. Isn't he?
Paul: An execution. A successful one.
Hal: How in the name of Christ can you call that a success?
Paul: Eduard Delacroix is dead. Isn't he?
The guy was set to be executed. Now he's dead. There's no "botched" to this at all. This was a success. Justice has been delivered.
The usual suspects are have almost wrung their hands right off of their wrists over this. It's "torture" and horrible and all of that. Well, sorry folks, but your hand-wringing is pointless, stupid, and frankly ignorant. We should all be so lucky as to die in 20 minutes with very little struggle or distress. Most of us won't. Most of us will suffer a lot of pain and often a lot of terror over several days or weeks before we finally expire. Very few people dying of "natural causes" doesn't suffer considerable pain for at least several hours.
So for all you people who are out there worried about how this wasn't a painless death for this evil bastard: stuff it where the sun don't shine.
Of course, the anti-death penalty activists will never even acknowledge that they are the cause of this shithead's "suffering."
The bad news is that the media is titillating over this so much they all collectively peed their pants with glee last night reporting this, often with just flat-out made-up bullshit, like claiming that Lockett sat up and said "something's wrong." They conveniently forgot the fact that he was strapped to a gurney and therefor couldn't have sat up, much less the ludicrous notion that he would have said "something's wrong." So, there will be a tremendous amount of urban legend that the media will squee about in their attempt to show how horrible the evil red states are, and clearly there are enough stupid people out there to be swayed by the media's bullshit; Obama got elected twice, after all.
It's long past time to either go back to firing squads, or else simply create a chair that will hold the condemned's head in place and shoot a bolt through his brain, cattle-style. Destroy the parietal lobe and the medulla oblongata in a tiny fraction of a second, and there is no question that someone will die pretty much instantly and won't suffer any pain. A lot cheaper than dreaming up lethal drug cocktails, too.
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