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."
Of course you are right.
Hanging is tried and true.
Why accept substitutes?
God, I sure hope so!
Alright OK, next time your gonna have to inject,electrocute, shoot, hang, poison, guillotine, oh and stab all in one motion.
Is he dead yet Jim?
And the treatment of Stephanie Nieman by said Clayton Lockett was exactly WHAT, o UN loudmouth?
the infowarrior
Why, indeed? :)
Thanks
It did ? NEAT !
Cops do far worse than this on a disturbingly regular basis to people who haven’t even been charged with or convicted of a crime, let alone sentenced, and the UN is silent. Why?
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