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Eugene

(61,903 posts) Fri Dec 19, 2014, 07:37 PM Dec 2014

Oklahoma to again employ injection mix used in flawed execution

Source: Reuters

Oklahoma to again employ injection mix used in flawed execution

BY HEIDE BRANDES
OKLAHOMA CITY Fri Dec 19, 2014 5:48pm EST

(Reuters) - Oklahoma plans to use the same lethal injection drug combination it employed during a botched execution in April, Department of Corrections officials told a federal court hearing arguments on whether to halt death sentences in the state from being carried out.

Lawyers for 21 death row inmates in Oklahoma, four of whom are scheduled to die next year, have asked the court to suspend future executions following the lethal injection of convicted murderer Clayton Lockett.

DOC Director Robert Patton testified that the sedative midazolam would be used in the upcoming executions, adding that Oklahoma chose the same drug protocol as Florida, which has won approval to use its combination from a court in that state.

In testimony for the plaintiffs this week, David Lubarsky, an anesthesiologist at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, said midazolam cannot achieve the levels of unconsciousness needed for surgical procedures, and is therefore problematic for executions.

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Oklahoma to again employ injection mix used in flawed execution (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2014 OP

Why not boiling in oil? longship Dec 2014 #1

One behind the ear is so much more efficient. PeteSelman Dec 2014 #2

There's nothing humane about terminating a viable person regardless of how it's done Major Nikon Dec 2014 #3

I'm saying if you're going to do it, do it right. PeteSelman Dec 2014 #8

I'm saying there is no way to "do it right" Major Nikon Dec 2014 #9

Well enough. PeteSelman Dec 2014 #10

This will obviously go well mythology Dec 2014 #4

Just as we look back on the Salem Witch Trials and say "what the hell were they thinking?" Nye Bevan Dec 2014 #5

State sanctioned murder. Nice. 99Forever Dec 2014 #6

It shouldn't be needed. lpbk2713 Dec 2014 #7

longship

(40,416 posts)

1. Why not boiling in oil?

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 07:49 PM

Dec 2014

Isn't that a guarantee of death?

Or, the electric chair, which gets the job done... Eventually! After a lot of sturm und drang.

R&K

PeteSelman

(1,508 posts)

2. One behind the ear is so much more efficient.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 08:04 PM

Dec 2014

Trying to make executions more "humane" has made them less so.

Just shoot them in the head or use a mechanical guillotine or something that's guaranteed to be fast and efficient. Or don't do it at all. It's not that hard, people have been doing clean executions for centuries. They weren't afraid of seeing blood, which seems to be the primary reason they do this injection crap.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)

3. There's nothing humane about terminating a viable person regardless of how it's done

Reply to PeteSelman (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 08:10 PM

Dec 2014

If the objective actually was actually benevolence, the obvious option is like you say which is to not do it at all.

PeteSelman

(1,508 posts)

8. I'm saying if you're going to do it, do it right.

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 08:26 PM

Dec 2014

I don't have a problem with capital punishment. Some people just need to go.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)

9. I'm saying there is no way to "do it right"

Reply to PeteSelman (Reply #8)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 08:32 PM

Dec 2014

PeteSelman

(1,508 posts)

10. Well enough.

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #9)

Sat Dec 20, 2014, 12:31 AM

Dec 2014

We'll agree to disagree.

mythology

(9,527 posts)

4. This will obviously go well

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 08:12 PM

Dec 2014

Hopefully a scrupulous court will grant a stay.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)

5. Just as we look back on the Salem Witch Trials and say "what the hell were they thinking?"

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 08:15 PM

Dec 2014

people in years to come will look back on the fact that in 2014 in a supposedly civilized democracy people were being strapped onto gurneys and forcibly injected with dubious poisons, and will not judge us kindly.

99Forever

(14,524 posts)

6. State sanctioned murder. Nice.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 08:16 PM

Dec 2014

Is there really a "humane" way to do that?

I really don't think so.

lpbk2713

(42,760 posts)

7. It shouldn't be needed.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 08:19 PM

Dec 2014

The condemned prisoners will probably die of fright after hearing this news.

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