Botched execution

[Jazzy]

The governor of the US state of Oklahoma has ordered a "full review" of the state's execution procedures following a botched execution.

Clayton Lockett's execution was stopped after 20 minutes on Tuesday evening

Officials say one of his veins ruptured, preventing the drugs from taking full effect. He died of a heart attack less than an hour later.

The execution of a fellow inmate, scheduled to die hours after Lockett, has been postponed amid the review.

Lockett was sentenced to death for shooting 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman and watching as two accomplices buried her alive in 1999.

Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin said in a statement that she had issued a 14-day stay of execution for fellow inmate Charles Warner, 46, while the state completed a review of its execution procedures.

Warner had been scheduled to be put to death in the same room two hours later in a rare double execution.‏

Warner was convicted of the 1997 murder and rape of an 11-month-old girl.

His lawyer, Madeline Cohen, who witnessed Lockett's execution, said he had been "tortured to death" and called for an independent investigation, including an outside medical examination.

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Considering the crimes these men did, do you care if the execution was botched and it appeared he was "tortured to death"? Why / Why not?

 

[Sinon]

If you're up for being given the death penalty, I don't really care how you die. Put 'em through scaphism for all I care.

Actually yeah do scaphism, I want to see how that goes.

 

[DrLeftover]

Lockett was sentenced to death for shooting 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman and watching as two accomplices buried her alive in 1999.

... ... and he was 'tortured'.

oh, please.

 

[Flurry]

Fallin is an idiot I know that much. I don't understand why this would be such a concern when a prisoner is ALREADY going to be executed. In a morbid way, would give a family a bit more closure knowing the one who took their child or what have you suffered just as much.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

He died. Sounds like a stunning success!

 

[Evil Eye]

He died. Sounds like a stunning success!

Not when they wasted so much money to have him die straight away. Pushing him down the stairs would've been cheaper.

 

[Jazzy]

His lawyer, Madeline Cohen, who witnessed Lockett's execution, said he had been "tortured to death" and called for an independent investigation, including an outside medical examination.

Shame she didn't witness his victim being buried alive. Then she would have seen what "tortured to death" really means. I say go back to hanging them. It's a lot cheaper and maybe they can even reuse the rope a few times.

 

[Raven]

Karma, What goes around comes around.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

He died. Sounds like a stunning success!

Not when they wasted so much money to have him die straight away. Pushing him down the stairs would've been cheaper.

Thats a different story. But the end result is he is dead as he should be.

 

[Evil Eye]

Thats a different story. But the end result is he is dead as he should be.

True, I just wouldn't call it a "stunning success" when they were incompetent at best.