I don't watch TV "News" and had to look up who Clayton Lockett was, and what had happened to him. This was first I have heard of this horrendous botched execution and, even though I do support the DP in some cases, this was tragic and inexcusable. They put animals down more humanely!
Jerry Massie, a spokesman for Oklahoma's corrections department, explained to the group of witnesses permitted to watch the procedure that the first drug to be used under the state's new lethal injection protocol would take some time to have its desired effect. “Don't be surprised," he said
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The process began at at 6.23pm, but Lockett – as we had been warned – did not appear immediately to fall unconscious. Beneath a white sheet pulled to his neck, the restrained prisoner blinked and pursed his lips. At first he looked straight ahead, but after four minutes, he turned towards the witness area. By 6.30pm, his eyes were closed and his mouth slightly open, but when an official stood over him to check, it was clear something was wrong. "Mr Lockett is not unconscious," Trammell said.
At 6.33pm, Lockett was checked again and declared to be sedated. But then, during the following minutes, Lockett lurched forward against his restraints, writhing and attempting to speak. He strained and struggled violently, his body twisting, and his head reaching up from the gurney. Sixteen minutes after the execution began, Lockett said "Man," and Trammell decreed the blinds be lowered. Before they fell, Lockett's right arm was checked.
Then, in a gesture that seemed to echo Oklahoma’s fierce commitment to secrecy in the way it carries out lethal injections, the curtains were drawn over the execution chamber, obscuring the gruesome spectacle from public view. Officials picked up prison phones and left the room.
After a few minutes, the corrections department director, Robert Patton, came to the viewing room. "We’ve had a vein failure in which the chemicals did not make it into the offender," he told the assembled group, which included lawyers for the condemned prisoner, as well as 12 journalists
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/clayton-lockett-oklahoma-execution-witness
No disrespect intended to the OP, but I just hate opening what seems like an interesting thread only to find no context at all as to what the thread is about. I could discern that someone had been executed, but that's about it.
Peace,
Ghost
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