What is was like watching the botched Oklahoma execution

The Washington Post ^ | May 2, 2014 | Mark Berman

[KingofZion]

*** Oklahoma was using a new lethal injection drug for the first time, and the secrecy surrounding the drugs had caused a protracted argument that extended to the state’s courts and lawmakers. Branstetter had been there in January when Michael Wilson was killed with a three-drug mix that had been obtained from a compounding pharmacy. Wilson’s final words, spoken after the injections: “I feel my whole body burning.” So she wanted to go to see what was different this time.

At the beginning, the only thing that was different was that the execution was late. At 6:23 p.m., 23 minutes after the execution had been scheduled to begin, the beige blinds lifted up and the witnesses in the next two rooms could see Lockett on the gurney. They didn’t know — because they couldn’t know — that the execution was delayed because a technician couldn’t find a place to insert the IV, according to Robert Patton, director of the Department of Corrections. That technician looked at Lockett’s arms, legs, feet and neck before ultimately placing the IV in Lockett’s groin area five minutes before the blinds were lifted, Patton wrote in a timeline sent to the governor. The area with the IV was covered by a sheet so that witnesses couldn’t see his groin, blocking their view of the vein where the needle was inserted. ***

Three minutes later, “the violent reaction” began, she said. First, she saw his foot kick. Then his body bucked, he clenched his jaw and he began rolling his head from side to side, trying to lift his head up, grimacing and clenching his teeth. “He mumbled some things we didn’t understand,” Branstetter said. “The only thing I could make out was when he said ‘man.’” ***

[bigbob]

Yeah, but what a deterrent!

[tomkat]

             

[ronnie raygun]

Gets me sick to hear these bleeding hearts and thier compassion for life yet they applaud the death of a newborn on the womb. What about the woman who he shot with a shot gun point blank and watched as his cohorts buried her alive. I put my self in the parents shoes, this bastard should have been kept as long as possible in excruciating pain and still it would not be enough

[stanne]

Don’t leave out raped.

[sport]

Uh... they are. Each tear they shed is for the piece of crap that shot two times at close range with a shotgun, not a rifle or pistol [A shotgun makes a nastier wound], and buried her alive. “Buried alive” while bad enough is too sanitized term. The shovels full of dirt was dumped on and in her raw wounds. The child’s death was not quick or relatively painless. They should have tired a wild horse to each of his arms and legs and then whipped the horses into a gallop.

[libstripper]

LOL! i’m glad I never paid money to watch that piece of communist propaganda.

[libstripper]

A “near miss” that did the job on that subhuman POS better than a properly completed one ever would have. The subhuman asked for it and he got it. justice was never better done, except, possibly, on Trayvon (SBUH), who was doing his level set to become just as evil. Great that he misjudged his potential victim.

[ReaganÜberAlles]

I feel bad for him, kinda.

I’m sure, were the perp able to today, he would say: “Yeah, I got less than I deserved. It’s all good.”

Let us not forget the words of Jesse Walter Bishop (March 1, 1933 – October 22, 1979) (Executed in the Nevada gas chamber)

“Terming the death penalty ‘’an occupational hazard’’ in his line of work, Bishop refused to authorize an appeal of his case even when given the chance to do so minutes before entering the gas chamber. Said he: ‘’This is just one more step down the road of life that I’ve been heading all my life. Let’s go.’’

[Reddy]

Why did they replace the earlier drug combo?

“Two commonly used sedatives in lethal injections in the United States, sodium thiopental and pentobarbital, became hard to get for corrections departments in recent years when manufacturers took steps to ensure their products would not be used in capital punishment.”

[Reddy]

Didn’t it come out that Wilson had been coached to act like he was suffering during the execution so that his family could sue to get money from the state? I think that’s probably what just happened with the Oklahoma execution.

[NonValueAdded]

I know some tree service guys who have a better solution available.

[vetvetdoug]

If someone had just given him a dose of succinylcholine in his muscle he would not have put on a show and the dumbass reporters would have thought the execution was as smooth as silk. Its a show to make it look presentable anyway so why not do it? A bullet is quicker, cheaper and faster but doesn't look real good.

[Barkeep99]

While I agree with the sentiments expressed, I fear that exhibitions such as this will lead the courts to ban death penalty. My solution is nitrogen. It is hardly toxic or difficult to come by, 80% of what you are breathing now is nitrogen.

BUT place the soon-to-be-deceased in a sealed chamber and flood it with pure nitrogen, no oxygen, they won’t notice. No flailing about or collapsed veins, they just go to sleep and never wake up.

[FreeInWV]

All of the arguments don’t make any sense to me. I’m sure we could find a few hundred gallons of morphine somewhere. An ounce or 2 should do it. Sleep, breathing slows, breathing stops, done.

[TXnMA]

“I feel my whole body burning.”

No problem. He was just feeling the early effects of entering his eternal abode...

[servo1969]

Dear Washington post-
You’re breakin’ my f-ing heart.
/s

[Charles Henrickson]

[ApplegateRanch]

‘Twere up to me, I’d revive them at the last possible instant, then do it all over again; once for each capital crime they were convicted of committing.