Execution failed!

[HarmanKardon]

An execution in Oklahoma failed. The killer Clayton Lockett died agonizingly 43 minutes after he got an injection. He died at last from a heart attack.

A poison cocktail has been used that was not tested sufficiently.

Not a very good advertising for a nation that considers to be the center of the universe...

[finnbow]

Indeed. The story behind this travesty is much worse. The lawyers for the prisoners had filed suit saying that the cocktail was untested and the state Supreme Court ultimately decided to delay the execution until the cocktail was better tested/understood. The governor insisted that the state Supreme Court didn't have jurisdiction (in favor of the Court of Appeals that had sided with her before the SC overrode that decision). Furthermore, several state legislators threatened to impeach the SC justices who decided against allowing the execution to proceed. Ultimately, the SC backed down and the execution proceeded, with gruesome consequences.

The resulting botched execution represents cruel and unusual punishment (i.e., is unconstitutional) and I believe the Governor and legislators that forced this issue should be impeached, as should those SC justices who ultimately acquiesced to this barbarity.

Of course, bloodthirsty death penalty fans will say that the criminal in question committed a heinous crime and deserved his fate. Yet such death penalty fans (normally conservatives) normally hold themselves up as fans of the constitution. Bloodthirsty, fecking hypocrites.

[one1]

[QUOTE=finnbow;214228]Indeed. The story behind this travesty is much worse. The lawyers for the prisoners had filed suit saying that the cocktail was untested and the state Supreme Court ultimately decided to delay the execution until the cocktail was better tested/understood. The governor insisted that the state Supreme Court didn't have jurisdiction (in favor of the Court of Appeals that had sided with her before the SC overrode that decision). Furthermore, several state legislators threatened to impeach the SC justices who decided against allowing the execution to proceed. Ultimately, the SC backed down and the execution proceeded, with gruesome consequences.

The resulting botched execution represents cruel and unusual punishment (i.e., is unconstitutional) and I believe the Governor and legislators that forced this issue should be impeached, as should those SC justices who ultimately acquiesced to this barbarity.



Of course, bloodthirsty death penalty fans will say that the criminal in question committed a heinous crime and deserved his fate. Yet such death penalty fans (normally conservatives) normally hold themselves up as fans of the constitution. Bloodthirsty, fecking hypocrites.[/QUOTE


well that is Our Country in a nutshell,cant kill millions inadverntly,but cant do it on purpose.just like the search for bin laden all those years.it is all just propaganda leading up to the grand finale.better get some more kettle corn and extra butter it is gonna get better.