Posted on 04/29/2014 7:03:25 PM PDT by lbryce
An Oklahoma inmate whose execution was halted Tuesday because the delivery of a new drug combination was botched died of a heart attack, the head of the state Department of Corrections said.
Director Robert Patton said inmate Clayton Lockett died Tuesday after all three drugs were administered.
Patton halted Lockett's execution about 20 minutes after the first drug was administered. He said there had been vein failure.
The execution began at 6:23 p.m. when officials began administering the first drug, and a doctor declared Lockett to be unconscious at 6:33 p.m.
About three minutes later, though, Lockett began breathing heavily, writhing on the gurney, clenching his teeth and straining to lift his head off the pillow. After about three minutes, a doctor lifted the sheet that was covering Lockett to examine the injection site.
"There was some concern at that time that the drugs were not having that (desired) effect, and the doctor observed the line at that time and determined the line had blown," Patton said at a news conference afterward, referring to Lockett's vein rupturing.
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How can an execution be botched if the criminal dies?
Just get a damn rope and then you don’t have to worry about European drug companies.
I don’t see problem here. Things all worked out in the end with one worthless human POS dead as he should have been years ago.
If there was a botched execution and the prisoner regained consciousness then IMO they should not face a second try. If I were governor I would commute the sentence to life wo parole in such a case.
I know that there are some evil individuals who truly deserve to die, but I could not sanction a second attempt at execution.
It's even cheaper if they charge the family for the bullet :-)
He watched as his victim was buried alive!
His execution doesn’t sound “botched” to me.
The process is to be followed in a precise,orderly way and if something goes wrong, I believe the execution team must stop the execution as means to learn what went wrong.
A properly-executed hanging works like a snap.
According to prosecutors, on the night of the killing, Lockett, one of his cousins and a friend entered Bobby Bornt’s home in Perry seeking repayment of a $20 debt. The three men bound Bornt and beat him with a shotgun while his 9-month-old son slept in the next room.
Nieman and a friend dropped by to invite Bornt to a party and were subsequently bound with duct tape. Nieman’s friend was beaten and raped by two of the men before the victims were loaded into two pickup trucks and driven to a rural dirt road.
Lockett admitted in the confession that he originally intended to kill the three adults because he feared police would learn he had violated terms of his probation from a previous felony.
After Nieman said she would tell police, he forced her to kneel while Shawn Mathis, a co-defendant, took about 20 minutes to dig a shallow grave. Lockett shot the girl in the shoulder, pushed her into the grave and shot her again in the chest before ordering Mathis to bury her alive.
According to an attorney general’s report on the crime, the three laughed about how tough the woman was as the dirt piled up atop her.
The other two victims reported the attack to police the next morning. Lockett’s cousin led officers to Nieman’s body.
Guess he didn’t die in vein!
Or in his case, a sawed-off shotgun to the back of the head (see post #9).
More liberal unintended consequences.
I can’t imagine the drugs used are still under patent, so if the Euros can’t in good conscience sell them for executions, why don’t the capital punishment states just form a corporation, and build a small plant and make their own for sale to the DOC in each state? Easy tech, and it’s not like you need tanker cars full of the stuff.
Even so, like the other poster I can’t figure out why they don’t just do a couple hundred cc’s of opiate. Half the guys are in there in the first place as a side effect of their effort to GET opiates, so they can’t very well claim it’s cruel. You could even use the street version. Who cares if it’s cut with rat poison, what’s he gonna do, die?
I’m puzzled by this entire discussion.
It seems to me that large animals (horses, etc.) are calmly put down every day - without any problems as far as I’ve heard.
It seems to me that we’re creating a very complex process out of something that is rather commonplace & simple.
Am I missing something?
He raped, shot, and buried alive a 19 year old woman..so yeah, cry me a river..whatever he got he got off easy, compared to his victim who went through hell
See: Saddam Hussien.
Worked perfect, he died.
Ah, so in fact he would have lived, at least have been given a temporary reprieve had he not suffered the heart attack.
Indeed.
A pound of C-4 taped to a forehead and lit off would be humane.
Well, it wasn’t “botched”...
At least not as bad as Thomas Edison’s infamous DC electrocution, where, I believe, the persons head started smoking while they were still quite alive...
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