Oklahoma to Continue Lethal Injections After Man Vomits During Execution

[JacksinPA]

Oklahoma to Continue Lethal Injections After Man Vomits During Execution (Published 2021)

It was the state’s first lethal injection since 2015, when it halted executions after using the wrong drug in one instance and allowing a prisoner to regain consciousness in another.

www.nytimes.com

It was the state’s first lethal injection since 2015, when it halted executions after using the wrong drug in one instance and allowing a prisoner to regain consciousness in another.

The director of Oklahoma’s prison system said on Friday that he did not plan to make any changes to the agency’s lethal injection protocols, a day after a man vomited while shaking for several minutes during the state’s first execution since 2015.

The man, John Marion Grant, was the first person executed by Oklahoma since prison officials made severe mistakes in previous executions, including using the wrong drug in one instance and, in another, allowing a prisoner to regain consciousness.

Mr. Grant, 60, was convicted of stabbing a prison cafeteria worker to death in 1998.
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There is no justification for this in today's society. But this is what you can expect in red states.

 

[Mycroft]

Oklahoma to Continue Lethal Injections After Man Vomits During Execution (Published 2021)

It was the state’s first lethal injection since 2015, when it halted executions after using the wrong drug in one instance and allowing a prisoner to regain consciousness in another.

www.nytimes.com

It was the state’s first lethal injection since 2015, when it halted executions after using the wrong drug in one instance and allowing a prisoner to regain consciousness in another.

The director of Oklahoma’s prison system said on Friday that he did not plan to make any changes to the agency’s lethal injection protocols, a day after a man vomited while shaking for several minutes during the state’s first execution since 2015.

The man, John Marion Grant, was the first person executed by Oklahoma since prison officials made severe mistakes in previous executions, including using the wrong drug in one instance and, in another, allowing a prisoner to regain consciousness.

Mr. Grant, 60, was convicted of stabbing a prison cafeteria worker to death in 1998.
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There is no justification for this in today's society. But this is what you can expect in red states.

Did the guy die after he puked? If so...the execution was a success.

btw, do you know what else usually comes out of the human body at the moment of death? Vomit is minor in comparison.

 

[Loulit01]

This lethal injection, gas chamber, electric chair stuff is nuts. Just kneel the guy down and put a .22 slug in the back of his head. We seem to go out of our way to make these things messy and complicated.

I'm against the death penalty but if you're going to do it, do it right.

 

[Nomad4Ever]

Did the guy die after he puked? If so...the execution was a success.

Sure. And it would have been "successful" if we hanged them too. Maybe the state doesn't have any business executing people.

 

[Fletch]

Oklahoma to Continue Lethal Injections After Man Vomits During Execution (Published 2021)

It was the state’s first lethal injection since 2015, when it halted executions after using the wrong drug in one instance and allowing a prisoner to regain consciousness in another.

www.nytimes.com

It was the state’s first lethal injection since 2015, when it halted executions after using the wrong drug in one instance and allowing a prisoner to regain consciousness in another.

The director of Oklahoma’s prison system said on Friday that he did not plan to make any changes to the agency’s lethal injection protocols, a day after a man vomited while shaking for several minutes during the state’s first execution since 2015.

The man, John Marion Grant, was the first person executed by Oklahoma since prison officials made severe mistakes in previous executions, including using the wrong drug in one instance and, in another, allowing a prisoner to regain consciousness.

Mr. Grant, 60, was convicted of stabbing a prison cafeteria worker to death in 1998.
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There is no justification for this in today's society. But this is what you can expect in red states.

I love how what upsets you libs about a story like this is that this guy had some minor discomfort in his final moments., and completely ignore the suffering of the woman who died at the hands of this piece of crap. He murdered a prison worker, Gay Carter, ny stabbing her 16 times back in 1998. That is why he was strapped to that gurney. Here is her story:

Daughter of Oklahoma death row inmate’s victim gives exclusive first television interview to KFOR

“You think you’re finally going to heal and everything is finally going to settle down, and then something opens that wound back up. So it’s been an emotional roller coaster,” Pam…

kfor.com

Whatever minor discomfort he had to endure, he had coming.

 

[mrjurrs]

Oklahoma to Continue Lethal Injections After Man Vomits During Execution (Published 2021)

It was the state’s first lethal injection since 2015, when it halted executions after using the wrong drug in one instance and allowing a prisoner to regain consciousness in another.

www.nytimes.com

It was the state’s first lethal injection since 2015, when it halted executions after using the wrong drug in one instance and allowing a prisoner to regain consciousness in another.

The director of Oklahoma’s prison system said on Friday that he did not plan to make any changes to the agency’s lethal injection protocols, a day after a man vomited while shaking for several minutes during the state’s first execution since 2015.

The man, John Marion Grant, was the first person executed by Oklahoma since prison officials made severe mistakes in previous executions, including using the wrong drug in one instance and, in another, allowing a prisoner to regain consciousness.

Mr. Grant, 60, was convicted of stabbing a prison cafeteria worker to death in 1998.
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There is no justification for this in today's society. But this is what you can expect in red states.

What is the point of executions anyway? Deterrence? Nope. Less expensive? Nope. Closure for the victims family? That's debatable. State vengeance? Seems the most likely.

 

[JacksinPA]

I've had carbon monoxide poisoning (from misdirected generator exhaust). It is clean, humane & very effective, as well as cheap. They sell the stuff in cylinders. If I had to go by my own hand, going the way Fred Astaire did in the post-apocalyptic movie On The Beach may be the easiest.

 

[Slartibartfast]

I've had carbon monoxide poisoning (from misdirected generator exhaust). It is clean, humane & very effective, as well as cheap. They sell the stuff in cylinders. If I had to go by my own hand, going the way Fred Astaire did in the post-apocalyptic movie On The Beach may be the easiest.

I am surprised this isn't used as well. It seems obvious to me for a few years now. However, I do not support the death penalty because there have been cases were people were exonerated afterwards, even in cases that were believed to be cut and dry at the time of trial.

 

[Fletch]

What is the point of executions anyway? Deterrence? Nope. Less expensive? Nope. Closure for the victims family? That's debatable. State vengeance? Seems the most likely.

The point is punishment. Not sure how you missed the purpose of Capital Punishment when the answer is right in its name.

 

[Nomad4Ever]

I love how what upsets you libs about a story like this is that this guy had some minor discomfort in his final moments.

Maybe I'm just a libtard, but I don't like it when the state executes people

 

[Lloyd Christmas]

How friggen hard is it to kill a person humanely? Why all these issues? Maybe because sick people want them to suffer. Put the person to sleep, then give them a dose of anything. Shouldn't be that hard

 

[Slartibartfast]

The point is punishment. Not sure how you missed the purpose of Capital Punishment when the answer is right in its name.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/04/30/theres-still-no-evidence-that-executions-deter-criminals/

 

[Court Jester]

I've had carbon monoxide poisoning (from misdirected generator exhaust). It is clean, humane & very effective, as well as cheap. They sell the stuff in cylinders. If I had to go by my own hand, going the way Fred Astaire did in the post-apocalyptic movie On The Beach may be the easiest.

That would fall under "cruel and unusual" in most states which have banned the use of lethal gas. I have no problem with it, but if asphyxia is the goal, which basically occurs when carbon monoxide is replacing oxygen in the blood stream, then why not just put a plastic bag over the guy's head and seal it off with heavy zip-lock tie. A method which works well and is far less messy.

 

[Fletch]

Maybe I'm just a libtard, but I don't like it when the state executes people

The role of the state is to establish justice. Thats what happened here.

 

[Fletch]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/04/30/theres-still-no-evidence-that-executions-deter-criminals/

I stated that the purpose is punishment not deterrence. How in the hell did you miss that?

 

[calamity]

Oklahoma to Continue Lethal Injections After Man Vomits During Execution (Published 2021)

It was the state’s first lethal injection since 2015, when it halted executions after using the wrong drug in one instance and allowing a prisoner to regain consciousness in another.

www.nytimes.com

It was the state’s first lethal injection since 2015, when it halted executions after using the wrong drug in one instance and allowing a prisoner to regain consciousness in another.

The director of Oklahoma’s prison system said on Friday that he did not plan to make any changes to the agency’s lethal injection protocols, a day after a man vomited while shaking for several minutes during the state’s first execution since 2015.

The man, John Marion Grant, was the first person executed by Oklahoma since prison officials made severe mistakes in previous executions, including using the wrong drug in one instance and, in another, allowing a prisoner to regain consciousness.

Mr. Grant, 60, was convicted of stabbing a prison cafeteria worker to death in 1998.
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There is no justification for this in today's society. But this is what you can expect in red states.

Isn't this the case where all the "pro-life" Catholics went against the doctrines of their church to sanction the execution with experimental drugs?

Maybe it is they who should be denied communion...lol

 

[calamity]

The role of the state is to establish justice. Thats what happened here.

You mean by murdering people who are strapped down?

 

[Fletch]

You mean by murdering people who are strapped down?

If you are suggesting he should just be parachutted into the Serengeti at dusk to live with his fellow animals and predators, I agree.

 

[WillyPete]

This lethal injection, gas chamber, electric chair stuff is nuts. Just kneel the guy down and put a .22 slug in the back of his head. We seem to go out of our way to make these things messy and complicated.

I'm against the death penalty but if you're going to do it, do it right.

I agree. We've gone way way out of our way to separate the responsibility for the killing from the act itself, and it's not clear what benefit we get from that.

Ideally, I'd have the jurors act as the firing squad. Make the decision real for them.

These days, they give a guy the death penalty knowing full well they'll be kicking around for years or decades on appeals, and there's a fair chance in that time the laws will change, or they'll find some reason to relitigate the charges. Meanwhile half the jurors and the survivors have died of old age.

When they eventually get around to finally (maybe) killing the guy no one even remembers what the ***** did to earn it, and it's all boo-hoo poor convict, look he prays to Jeebus now.

I say you vote for capital punishment on Monday, you shoot the guy through the chest Wednesday.

Get it right, own your mistakes, or don't do it in the first place.

 

[Slartibartfast]

I stated that the purpose is punishment not deterrence. How in the hell did you miss that?

The punishment aspect is pointless unless it deters future crime. What you are describing is vengeance and that has no place in morality.

 

[mrjurrs]

The point is punishment. Not sure how you missed the purpose of Capital Punishment when the answer is right in its name.

If the point is punishment, don't you think they should be taking place? To a great extent they are not. Who else suffers? The guards killing the prisoner, the prisoners family and so on. If punishment is the purpose, shouldn't they just be flayed?

 

[Lycanthrope]

This lethal injection, gas chamber, electric chair stuff is nuts. Just kneel the guy down and put a .22 slug in the back of his head. We seem to go out of our way to make these things messy and complicated.

I'm against the death penalty but if you're going to do it, do it right.

Make executions mandatory viewing for all citizens of voting age as well. They need to see what the government is doing in their name. Used to be public hangings were a community event, with families coming to watch the festivities.

 

[Mycroft]

Sure. And it would have been "successful" if we hanged them too. Maybe the state doesn't have any business executing people.

That's up to that state, isn't it?

 

[Nomad4Ever]

That's up to that state, isn't it?

Legally I believe it does.

 

[bongsaway]

This lethal injection, gas chamber, electric chair stuff is nuts. Just kneel the guy down and put a .22 slug in the back of his head. We seem to go out of our way to make these things messy and complicated.

I'm against the death penalty but if you're going to do it, do it right.

An overdose of heroin and they won't feel a thing and bing, bang, boom a nice quiet, peaceful death. With that said I am ninety five percent against the death penalty for two reasons, first it has to be proved beyond any reasonable doubt, eyewitnesses, almost worthless. I want to see it on tape in this day and age or have overwhelming physical evidence of guilt, dna in particular. The second reason, it takes way too long and too many of them seem to be for vengeance and purposely cruel, like oklahoma keeps showing us.