Possibly just the result that any Judicial Killing opponent needed.
Amateur hour at the Death Chamber.
The Drugs did not work, just as the lawyers had suggested in the lawsuit turned down by the Courts.
Certainly Cruel and Unusual.
Slowly, slowly the USA might become a civilised modern state. One can only hope.
Rant aside- how can this car crash of a killing to anything other than make judicial killing less palatable? What will a court rule next time a case is brought that a drug regime is not competent.
It does not matter- the procedure is incompetent. It will be increasingly difficult to get courts to authorise procedures if such cock-ups continue to occur. In the past few killings about half of them have caused concern about procedure and efficacy. Each time there is a screw up it increases the likelihood that law suits against procedures will be successful.
I see the people waiting to be killed by the state (along with their rather heroic lawyers) as Rosa Parks like- gradually providing a kick to the system as it is changed in the direction of humanity and dignity.
"The double executions were scheduled after an unprecedented legal and political dispute in Oklahoma. The inmates challenged the secrecy surrounding Oklahoma’s source of lethal injection drugs, winning at the state district court level, but two higher courts argued over which could grant a stay of execution.
When the state supreme court stayed their executions so that it could consider their constitutional claim, the Republican governor, Mary Fallin, declared in a controversial statement that it had no authority to grant the stay. A House member said he would try to have the justices who wanted the stay impeached. Amid accusations of undue political pressure, the court then ruled against the prisoners and lifted the stay."
Except Rosa Parks never shot a teenage girl and then buried her alive.
I personally am not a supporter of the Death Penalty but if you think too many people other than those who are already strongly against the Death Penalty are going to compare him to Rosa Parks you’re horribly naive.
I was vastly more sympathetic with the brain damaged guy Clinton executed who was so out of it he refused to finish his last meal but instead wanted to save it for “later, when I get back” and that was over twenty years ago and I’m willing to bet even people reading this familiar with the case will have to head over to Wikipedia to remember his name(FTR I don’t remember it either).
Susanna Gattoni and Seth Day, attorneys for Lockett and Warner, said Lockett’s execution demonstrated the harm caused by secrecy surrounding the drugs used in the attempted executions.
“This is exactly why we fought so hard to get this information known not just for our clients but for everyone,” said Gattoni. " This shouldn’t be kept secret. This is unfortunately what happens."
“There will be a next step,” Day said. “Whatever it is there will be a next step.”
Cohen, Warner’s attorney, said no executions should proceed in Oklahoma in light of Lockett’s execution. “My feeling about this is there can be no more executions in Oklahoma until there is a full investigation into what went wrong, an autopsy by an independent pathologist and full transparency about this process including the drugs,” Cohen said."
No, Lockett appealed to the Supreme Court and got a stay of execution. The Governor pulled an Andrew Jackson and made it public she was going to execute them anyway, just a bit later than intended. I guess that was enough because a few days later (lol) the Supreme Court decided reverse their previous ruling. Meanwhile, Oklahoma congressmen were calling for the impeachment of the justices who sided with the inmates. Cowards. Not unlike the Clippers players, the SC justices were thinking more about their jobs and paychecks rather than doing what’s right.
Anyway, turns out, it was a fatal mistake, because the dude died of a punctured vein. He went into cardiac arrest and died. I await the autopsy results. Oklahoma is so hungry to kill them that they’re using secret suppliers and concoctions shielded from the public to do it. We still don’t know what was injected in him, where it is supplied, and whether it was tested properly. It’s something straight out of the Tuskegee experiments. I just wish they’d just give us our money so we can get the hell out of here.
We do not know what happened. We only have the word of an incompetent and immoral doctor who decided that the victim was sedated when he was not!
I would not trust the word of any person involved as they are committed to carrying out judicial killings whatever the cost.
"Madeline Cohen, a federal public defender and lawyer for Mr. Warner, said that while prison officials asserted that the problem was only with the intravenous line, “unless we have a full and independent investigation, we’ll never know.”
“No execution should take place in Oklahoma until there has been a full investigation into Clayton Lockett’s death, including an independent autopsy and full transparency surrounding the drugs and the process of administering them,” she said."
So he should deserves a botched death procedure? Maybe judges can give the contrite murders “death by lethal injection” and unrepentant murderers “death by botched injection”. If you’re going to have government-sanctioned killing at least do it in a manner that is consistent. Otherwise, just bring back the damn guillotine or the gas chamber and be done with it.