Clayton D. Lockett

Bad Seed or Bad Start?

By Lynn A. Granata

     Whenever a death penalty execution by our criminal justice system occurs the media goes on an immediate frenzy.

        On April 29, 2014 an angry young man, Clayton D. Lockett was executed by a botched lethal injection in an Oklahoma penitentiary.

        He started his life on the wrong foot. His mother abandoned him when he was three years old, and his father forced him into a life of crime and violence.

         In fact, both of his parents were drug addicted degenerates. At some point in his young life, his drug afflicted father, with which whom he lived with as a child remarried.

      Lockett never had any say in the matter just like with every other malevolent eventful turn of unfortunate circumstances. A wicked stepmother, so what difference does it make? Lockett may have been born bad, but what other way else can you say or rephrase this fact? You can also say he was born into a life where he never had a chance.

     Okay, but that's no excuse for the brutal rape, robbery, torture and murder of Stephanie Neiman, he committed back in 1999.

     What motivated him to do such evil? He was angry because Neiman represented everything in life that Lockett wanted, felt he should have had and hated her because of it. He was consumed by anger and malevolent jealously, a bad combination.

     Why was he ever born in the first place? He was unwanted. What was his biological mother thinking? She abused him and threw him away.

      What chance does anybody have in life when the cards are clearly stacked against you? No one around to teach this "boy" right from wrong.

     Maybe we ought to set more laws for parents. Parents who are unfit should not be allowed to bear children. But that would be a moot point to ponder. His mother was given free will. There's no reproduction law, aside from legalized abortion, that states that you can't have children.

      Again, free will is what God has given us. If his mother didn't understand the meaning of free will, she would never be able to teach the concept of it to her son.

      You can say anything you want about Clayton D. Lockett. He was evil, he was a monster, he got what he deserved, etc. Let the truth be told he just never had a chance, period.