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Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs
Daniel_Stuckey (2647775) writes "The state of Oklahoma had scheduled two executions for Tuesday, April 29th. This in spite of myriad objections that the drugs being used for both lethal injections had not been tested, and thus could violate the constitutional right to the courts, as well as the 8th Amendment: protection from cruel and unusual punishment. After much legal and political wrangling, the state proceeded with the executions anyway. It soon became clear that the critics' worst case scenarios were coming true — Oklahoma violently botched the first execution. The inmate "blew" a vein and had a heart attack. The state quickly postponed the second one. 'After weeks of Oklahoma refusing to disclose basic information about the drugs for tonight's lethal injection procedures, tonight, Clayton Lockett was tortured to death,' Madeline Cohen, the attorney of Charles Warner, the second man scheduled for execution, said in a statement. Katie Fretland at The Guardian reported from the scene of the botched attempt to execute Lockett using the untested, unvetted, and therefore potentially unconstitutional lethal injection drugs."
sciencehabit also points out a study indicating that around 4% of death row inmates in the U.S. are likely innocent.
Lots more political posts of late, generally of a liberal slant. Whatever, but is the quality of the political discussion/diatribes that follow why folks read slashdot rather than move on or national review online or such.
Stuff that matters? Maybe. News for nerds? Not so much.
This waste of oxygen rounded up two friends and went to beat up a guy who owed him a few bucks.
Girlfriend and another female friend just happen to drop by at the wrong moment.
Good round of beatings, all three wastes of oxygen rape the female friend.
He not-quite-fatally shoots the girlfriend twice. They fucking bury her alive.
Do you want to know exactly how bad I feel that this guy suffered for an hour?
Yes, we have some grey area in death penalty cases. This ain't one of them.
Oh, and if you want to really feel good about humanity today, the second execution that they stopped because of Lockett squirming a little? Raped and murdered an 11 month old baby. Real paragons of virtues, these guys.
*It should be noted that I'm merely speaking from experience and my comments concering [the Bible Belt in general and Oklahoma in particular] might be tainted with a degree of personal bias because (A) I am not a cultural-relativist and (B) I live there. :p
Is that the GOP forces medicare part D to pay top $ for meds, services, which is why it costs more than ACA.
Yet, the same GOP is unwilling to fork money for the drugs necessary to do these executions correctly to have them manufactured in the US.
What a looney bunch that has a great deal in common with the worst leaders in history.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
What is gained? Less criminality in society.
That's the whole fucking point.
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
At one time, the world was thought to be flat, and after that, many thought that the universe rotated around the earth (and plenty of GOP still do). Is that what you want to go back to, or are you going to allow science and knowledge to take hold and make changes in our policy?
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.