{"id":5431,"date":"2014-04-30T19:53:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T19:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=5431"},"modified":"2014-04-30T19:53:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T19:53:18","slug":"oklahoma-botches-an-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5431","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma botches an execution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Clayton Lockett is dead.<\/p>\n<p>To some, it&#8217;s no big deal. He was a murderer who was sentenced to die for a hideous crime. He didn&#8217;t depart this world quite the way the state of Oklahoma desired. He suffered terribly in a botched execution.<\/p>\n<p>Still no big deal? Well, it is.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/117585\/clayton-lockett-execution-botched-problem-lethal-injection<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma executioners used a drug cocktail for the first time. They thought they&#8217;d administered the lethal injection, only to have the condemned man lurch on the gurney, gasp, choke, thrash about before succumbing.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, he was a killer who deserved to die, right? Some have even ventured that he should have suffered the same level of agony he delivered to his victim.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the government is supposed to be above that kind of barbarism. States that execute inmates for their capital crimes should do so humanely. That&#8217;s what <em>civilized<\/em> governments prescribe for this kind of punishment, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the individual who inserted the needle into Lockett&#8217;s arm missed the vein. The drugs began to flow, but not into the man&#8217;s bloodstream. Thus, the suffering occurred and it has caused state officials to look deeply into the methods they use to carry out these punishments.<\/p>\n<p>None of this should be grist for jokes, or snide comments about whether a condemned criminal has gotten &#8220;what he deserved.&#8221; If states are going to execute inmates for these capital crimes, it is imperative they develop fool-proof methods that do not produce the kind of ghastly drama that played out this week in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clayton Lockett is dead. To some, it&#8217;s no big deal. He was a murderer who was sentenced to die for a hideous crime. He didn&#8217;t depart this world quite the way the state of Oklahoma desired. He suffered terribly in a botched execution. Still no big deal? Well, it is. http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/117585\/clayton-lockett-execution-botched-problem-lethal-injection Oklahoma executioners used a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5431\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oklahoma botches an execution<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[847,1018,3405],"class_list":["post-5431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-capital-punishment","tag-clayton-lockett","tag-oklahoma-death-chamber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}