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By Ben Mathis-LilleyThe state of Okahoma has released more details about the botched execution of inmate Clayton Lockett on Tuesday. From the New York Times:
(I wondered if "groin area" was a Times euphemism for the urethra, but it doesn't seem like that's the case.)
Once the IV was placed, the process lasted 30 minutes longer than is typical for Oklahoma executions. For 27 of those minutes witnesses were apparently unable to see what was happening in the execution chamber after a physician lowered a set of blinds. Lockett also had to be subdued via Taser before guards could bring him to the chamber.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/05/02/oklahoma_botched_execution_clayton_lockett_lethally_injected_through_groin.html?
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)And since it was an artery it is even more painful.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)Things would have gone much smoother and it would have been over faster.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)George Westinghouse said after the first electrocution by electric chair in 1890, "They would have done better with an axe".
Westinghouse was in huge competition with Thomas Edison for the rights to provide a power system. Edison wanted to use DC power and Westinghouse AC.
Because of this Edison really championed the switch to the electric chair because it would have to use the deadlier AC power.
Who would have thought that 123 years later we'd still be killing people and doing it so badly that a bat or an axe would have worked better.
intaglio
(8,170 posts)Or is it just a guideline?
eShirl
(18,477 posts)it does sound familiar...
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Come on, get with the times.
eShirl
(18,477 posts)wouldn't a big fatal dose of morphine be more humane than dicking around with all these experimental injections