Oklahoma botched execution?

[kmitch200]

Oklahoma inmate dies of heart attack after botched execution

The execution of a convicted murderer was halted Tuesday night when the delivery of a new lethal injection combination was botched, but the man died later of a heart attack, the head of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections said.

The execution of Clayton Lockett, 38, began at 6:23 p.m. when official administered the first of three drugs. A doctor declared Lockett to be unconscious at 6:33 p.m.
About three minutes later, however, Lockett began breathing heavily, writhing on the gurney and straining to lift his head from the pillow. The condemned man could be seen speaking, CBS affiliate KOTV in Tulsa reported.
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Autry, Lockett's attorney, questioned the amount of midazolam that was given to the condemned man, saying he thought that the 100 milligrams called for in the state's execution protocol was "an overdose quantity."
A four-time felon, Locket, 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.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/oklahoma-inmate-dies-of-heart-attack-after-botched-execution/

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Not really sure if you can call this botched...he was supposed to die, he died. May not have been by the book but he is dead.
I can think of at least one worse way to die...like being blasted with a shotgun, then buried alive. 

[Ichiban]

How about this?  Simple, cheap, and effective.

[billt]

I just can't wrap myself around all of these problems and issues they seem to be having with all of these lethal injection executions. First they couldn't get the drugs to perform them because there was a "shortage". Then it seems they have constant issues with the whole Rube Goldberg contraption they use to administer this 3 or 4 drug cocktail working correctly. The thing has so many hoses attached to it, it looks like the back of the aquariums at Pet Smart.

While all this is going on you can take a sick and dying dog or a cat to any vets office in the country, and have it put down painlessly in 5 minutes, for usually under $100.00 bucks. They slip away in mere seconds without making a sound with one single shot. Talk about over complicating something with a lot of nonsense. Do any of these people in charge of these things possess a single ounce of common sense?

[brushmore]

While all this is going on you can take a sick and dying dog or a cat to any vets office in the country, and have it put down painlessly in 5 minutes, for usually under $100.00 bucks. They slip away in mere seconds without making a sound with one single shot. Talk about over complicating something with a lot of nonsense. Do any of these people in charge of these things possess a single ounce of common sense?

I was thinking the same exact thing.  Mankind has been killing each other for a very longtime I would think this is one thing that should be kind of easy by now.

I think this is probably intentional to try to sway the public opinion against capital punishment.

[tombogan03884]

He's dead.
Sounds like it worked fine to me.

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[jaybet]

We could solve all of this controversy by simply passing a law that a murderer is executed in the same fashion as he murdered his victims. Be it by gunshot, drunk driving, or rats gnawing at their testes, the killer gets what he gave.

[MikeBjerum]

Lethal Injection:

[tt11758]

He's dead.
Sounds like it worked fine to me.

My thoughts exactly!

[TAB]

yep, learn for next time... still worked.

[Timothy]

Dead is dead...  Score one more for the Sooners!