Oklahoma used wrong drug in January execution: newspaper report

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Oklahoma, which last week put on hold planned executions due to a mix-up with lethal injection drugs, used a drug not included in its official protocol in a convicted murderer's January execution, The Oklahoman newspaper reported on Thursday.

The state used bottles labeled potassium acetate to execute convicted murderer Charles Warner when it was supposed to have used potassium chloride, a drug used to stop the heart that is part of the state's protocol for lethal injections, the newspaper reported, citing state Corrections Department records.

Warner's final words included "my body is on fire," according to witnesses in the death chamber.

The state's attorney general and corrections officials declined comment on the report.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/08/us-usa-execution-oklahoma-idUSKCN0S22GZ20151008

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US | Thu Oct 8, 2015 2:19pm EDT
OKLAHOMA CITY | BY HEIDE BRANDES

Source: The Oklahoman

Wrong drug used for January execution, state records show

by Nolan Clay and Rick Green Published: October 8, 2015
© Copyright 2015, The Oklahoman

The wrong deadly drug was used to execute baby killer Charles Frederick Warner in January, records show.

Oklahoma Corrections Department officials used bottles labeled potassium acetate for the final drug during the lethal injection Jan. 15 — in violation of protocol, the records show. Officials were supposed to use potassium chloride to stop Warner's heart.

The same wrong drug was delivered to corrections officials Sept. 30 for the scheduled lethal injection that day of another convicted murderer, Richard Glossip.

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Read more: http://newsok.com/article/5452084

[valerief]

1. The OK Dept. of Education really should teach people to read.

Do they have day workers doing these executions? Or just sadists?

[LiberalArkie]

2. In their mind - Oklahoma - black inmate suffered - black inmate dead - They ask

"and the problem is?"

Note the next to be executed is white and is delayed to make sure that it is a peaceful execution. Oklahoma says again "what racism?", "I don't see no stinking racism"

[deathrind]

3. Wow...

An acid.... no wonder his body was on fire.

[uppityperson]

6. Potassium acetate is a weak base

Potassium is a strong base, acetate a weak acid so it forms a weak base in solution, not an acid. Call me a geek.

[deathrind]

8. I stand corrected.

I misread the pH value of it.

Still not a good chemical to have injected...

[7962]

4. In case anyone forgot why, here's a description of his 11 yr old rape & murder victim

"Shonda Waller left for the grocery store one August afternoon in 1997 and came home to find her 11-month-old infant, Adrianna, undressed, limp and lifeless.
Her dolly eyelashes wouldn't move. Adrianna was dead on arrival at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City.
Her skull, jaw and ribs were fractured. Her liver was lacerated, her spleen and lungs were bruised."
"It was a sharp-eyed charge nurse who first noticed the signs of sexual abuse, as she cleaned Adrianna's tiny body so that her mother could hold her one last time. Her baby weighed the same as a sack of potatoes."
And it still took almost 20 years to execute him?

Fuck him.

[duhneece]

10. Folks' opposition to state killing is never about what kind of person the murderer is

It is about who we as a nation are. No one deserves to be killed; no human enterprise is so perfect that mistakes won't be made so odds are we'll goof and execute an innocent person...hell, we've done that. It's not about who they are; it's about who we are and I don't want killing done in my name. Period.

[ronnie624]

14. *

[Judi Lynn]

11. The corporate media hoped people like you got bent reading their description of him as "baby killer"

immediately preceding his name.

That still doesn't encourage balanced people of good will to revel in the gruesome details and try to rally hatred for the man.

Hate him in private, don't make it your life's calling to flog dead men unceasingly.

[TygrBright]

5. Of all the things to be incompetent at...

...public execution is pretty much the least forgivable.

First, let me say that I categorically oppose capital punishment, period.

However, if we are going to condone state-sponsored killing of people who kill people, to demonstrate how wrong it is to kill people (has your head exploded yet?) then we should be doing it as simply and quickly and effectively as possible.

One bullet, behind the ear, at close range.

If we're not willing to do it effectively, efficiently, and humanely, we should examine the "whys" behind the cruel, incompetent, ineffectively-sanitized version of killing we ARE willing to undertake.

And if we do it that way because we're afraid of the moral responsibility that comes with stepping up to a living human being and putting a bullet behind their ear with full state approval, well, then... shame on us, we shouldn't be doing it at ALL.

disgustedly,
Bright

[Gregorian]

7. Disgusting. What have we become? What a murderous nation.

[tonekat]

9. That drug burns!!

A couple of years ago, before a surgery, they decided my potassium was too low, so they had to delay surgery while they quickly raised my potassium levels. In retrospect, they should not have done this, I have Addison's disease, and I have to keep my sodium levels above potassium levels.

They ran an IV into the back of my hand. Let me tell you, my hand could not have felt anymore like it was on fire than if it was physically on fire. This went on for 45 minutes. They had to pack my hand in ice and it still hurt like crazy, because it was not diluted.

I can't imagine having enough injected to cause death.

[Judi Lynn]

12. Thank you for sharing your real experience here. So sorry you had to endure that. Jeez. n/t

[solar Max]

13. There is NO "right" drug!

When are we going to join the ranks of the truly civilized countries by banning the death penalty?

[Freddie Stubbs]

15. In order to execute them humanely, why don't they use the drugs which are used in assisted suicides?