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UN: Oklahoma execution may violate int'l law
Town Hall ^ | May 02 2012 | Town Hall

Posted on 05/02/2014 4:01:54 AM PDT by PoloSec

GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations human rights office says U.S. death row inmate Clayton Lockett's suffering during his botched Oklahoma execution this week may amount to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international human rights law.

A spokesman for the office, Rupert Colville, says Lockett's prolonged death on Tuesday is "the second case of apparent extreme suffering caused by malfunctioning lethal injections" reported in the United States this year, after Dennis McGuire's execution in Ohio on Jan. 16 with an allegedly untested combination of drugs.

Colville told reporters Friday in Geneva that "the apparent cruelty involved in these recent executions simply reinforces the argument that authorities across the United States should impose an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty and work for abolition of this cruel and inhuman practice."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: execution; internationallaw
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1 posted on 05/02/2014 4:01:55 AM PDT by PoloSec
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To: PoloSec

So throw Oklahoma out of the UN. That’ll teach ‘em!


2 posted on 05/02/2014 4:03:27 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I'd forgotten how much fun it is having a dog.)
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To: PoloSec

Up yours, UN. Scumbag got less than he deserved. And by the way, Oklahoma is your moral superior, you statist thugs.


3 posted on 05/02/2014 4:04:02 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: PoloSec

There seems to be some massive belief in one central US federal policy by everyone...on everything. The blunt truth is that there’s fifty different policies, on countless issues, and when you address “US”....it means United States, not OSA (One-State-America).


4 posted on 05/02/2014 4:05:13 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Tax-chick

Meanwhile, none of this does anything to enhance Oklahoma’s reputation as a destination for medical tourism.


5 posted on 05/02/2014 4:05:16 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: PoloSec

Oh my? Oklahoma will no longer have to pay its share of the millions that the USA fritters away on the bogus UN each year? Bummers!

The executed was a total demon , burying his wounded victim alive.His karma simply ripened, and he deserved every ounce of hell he got.


6 posted on 05/02/2014 4:07:19 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: PoloSec

Uh, so in the UN’s eyes raping and stabbing a pregnant woman to death is not inhumane. Sorry, he had it far better. I couldn’t care less about any “suffering” he experienced.


7 posted on 05/02/2014 4:07:20 AM PDT by USNA74
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To: billorites

Well, yes. A person seeking assisted suicide would probably want to go elsewhere.


8 posted on 05/02/2014 4:09:04 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I'd forgotten how much fun it is having a dog.)
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To: PoloSec

But I guess the muzzie way of whacking off heads and extremities is peachy keen?


9 posted on 05/02/2014 4:09:17 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: PoloSec

HEY, un DIPSTICKS GO F-YOURSELF!!!

What about the ragheadgoathumpingcamelrapingchopoffyourheadbecause [insert warped reason here] A$$holes?

Go pick nits with them!!!


10 posted on 05/02/2014 4:11:24 AM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!!)
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To: PoloSec

International Law?

HERE we go!!


11 posted on 05/02/2014 4:11:53 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Candor7

Every ounce of hell he GOT? I believe there is more to come.


12 posted on 05/02/2014 4:12:36 AM PDT by ruesrose (The Anchor Holds)
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To: freeangel

Fine just take all the fun out of My post;(


13 posted on 05/02/2014 4:13:04 AM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!!)
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To: PoloSec

Ooook-lahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet
When the needle blows out from the vein.


14 posted on 05/02/2014 4:13:57 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: ruesrose

Very True.


15 posted on 05/02/2014 4:15:35 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: PoloSec

the council needs to be quiet or it will be guilty of the capital crime of interfering with the Oklahoma death penalty.

They feel safe in Geneva, but perhaps, should not.


16 posted on 05/02/2014 4:16:50 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: billorites

BUahahahahahahahahaha! FIRST GUT LAUGH OF THE DAY!


17 posted on 05/02/2014 4:17:48 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: mabarker1

I do think yours is much better! :)


18 posted on 05/02/2014 4:20:59 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: PoloSec

Acceptable to the UN.... put a lit tire around his neck or cut off his head?


19 posted on 05/02/2014 4:29:42 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: PoloSec

Please, please, please. Kick the United States out of the UN.


20 posted on 05/02/2014 4:35:20 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Government by Gun Point.)
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