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McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — A botched execution that used a new drug combination left an Oklahoma inmate writhing and clenching his teeth on the gurney Tuesday, leading prison officials to halt the proceedings before the inmate's eventual death from a heart attack.

Clayton Lockett, 38, was declared unconscious 10 minutes after the first of the state's new three-drug lethal injection combination was administered. Three minutes later, though, he began breathing heavily, writhing, clenching his teeth and straining to lift his head off the pillow.

The blinds were eventually lowered to prevent those in the viewing gallery from watching what was happening in the death chamber, and the state's top prison official eventually called a halt to the proceedings. Lockett died of a heart attack a short time later, the Department of Corrections said.

"It was a horrible thing to witness. This was totally botched," said Lockett's attorney, David Autry.

The problems with the execution are likely to fuel more debate about the ability of states to administer lethal injections that meet the U.S. Constitution's requirement they be neither cruel nor unusual punishment. That question has drawn renewed attention from defense attorneys and death penalty opponents in recent months, as several states scrambled to find new sources of execution drugs because drugmakers that oppose capital punishment — many based in Europe — have stopped selling to prisons and corrections departments.

Oklahoma inmate dies after execution is botched'

On the other hand, he did die, so you can't say it was a total failure.
 

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McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — A botched execution that used a new drug combination left an Oklahoma inmate writhing and clenching his teeth on the gurney Tuesday, leading prison officials to halt the proceedings before the inmate's eventual death from a heart attack.

Clayton Lockett, 38, was declared unconscious 10 minutes after the first of the state's new three-drug lethal injection combination was administered. Three minutes later, though, he began breathing heavily, writhing, clenching his teeth and straining to lift his head off the pillow.

The blinds were eventually lowered to prevent those in the viewing gallery from watching what was happening in the death chamber, and the state's top prison official eventually called a halt to the proceedings. Lockett died of a heart attack a short time later, the Department of Corrections said.

"It was a horrible thing to witness. This was totally botched," said Lockett's attorney, David Autry.

The problems with the execution are likely to fuel more debate about the ability of states to administer lethal injections that meet the U.S. Constitution's requirement they be neither cruel nor unusual punishment. That question has drawn renewed attention from defense attorneys and death penalty opponents in recent months, as several states scrambled to find new sources of execution drugs because drugmakers that oppose capital punishment — many based in Europe — have stopped selling to prisons and corrections departments.

Oklahoma inmate dies after execution is botched'

On the other hand, he did die, so you can't say it was a total failure.

Disgusting!
 

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Drugs were probably administered by an anti-death penalty advocate.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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Disgusting!
It's a bizarre alliance of business and do-gooders. They want to make execution more "humane," so they make it more and more complex, with more and more failure points. And zero evidence it's more effective or less painful than hanging.

You know who the first "humane execution" guy was? A French physician.

Named Guillotin.

Drugs were probably administered by an anti-death penalty advocate.
Yep, the world's a conspiracy.
 

Walter

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Yep, the world's a conspiracy.
The world's a stage.

Retributive justice.
Lockett, 38, was convicted of first-degree murder, rape, kidnapping and robbery for a 1999 crime spree with two co-defendants. He was found to have shot teen-ager Stephanie Nieman and burying her alive in a shallow grave where she eventually died. h/t Yahoo news.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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The world's a stage.

Retributive justice.
Lockett, 38, was convicted of first-degree murder, rape, kidnapping and robbery for a 1999 crime spree with two co-defendants. He was found to have shot teen-ager Stephanie Nieman and burying her alive in a shallow grave where she eventually died. h/t Yahoo news.
Please don't misquote Shakespeare.
 

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Abolish the death penalty. However, states who have capital punishment don't listen to Canadian opinion; Americans of conscience must be more vocal.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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Abolish the death penalty.
Why?

However, states who have capital punishment don't listen to Canadian opinion;
True. Also important to remember it's not just states, there is a Federal death penalty.

Americans of conscience must be more vocal.
Yeah, shout louder. It might actually work. While saying the same thing over and over and louder and louder may not make it any more true, it does tend to increase acceptance.
 

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I currently think the death penalty should only be used on serial rapists, serial murders and serial pedophiles. If they can't be cured, or imprisoned for life(meaning until they die), get execute them.
 

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I currently think the death penalty should only be used on serial rapists, serial murders and serial pedophiles. If they can't be cured, or imprisoned for life(meaning until they die), get execute them.
Define "serial."

Two rapes/murders/kiddiefiddles? Six? Fourteen?

Explain to victim #4 how her violation wasn't worth the death penalty, but victim #9's was.
 

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boo hoo...

I don't really care how this scumbag died.

[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]A four-time felon, Lockett was convicted of shooting 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman with a sawed-off shotgun and watching as two accomplices buried her alive in rural Kay County in 1999 after Neiman and a friend arrived at a home the men were robbing.[/FONT]
 

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Why?


True. Also important to remember it's not just states, there is a Federal death penalty.


Yeah, shout louder. It might actually work. While saying the same thing over and over and louder and louder may not make it any more true, it does tend to increase acceptance.

American Exceptionalism in human rights and foreign affairs is your perrogative. Just makes it a tad harder to critcise your Egyptian friends and others whom you support financially and militarily.
The "you" and "your" are plural.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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American Exceptionalism in human rights and foreign affairs is your perrogative. Just makes it a tad harder to critcise your Egyptian friends and others whom you support financially and militarily.
The "you" and "your" are plural.
Ah, yes. "America is the only Western democracy that has the death penalty." Heard it. It's not true. And lying doesn't help your case. Unless you're believed, and I'm sure those that are already convinced will believe you.

Yay. You've got the solid support of people who already supported you. Woo hoo.