Death Penalty Inmates that were Botched Executions

By Lynn A. Granata

Over the last few decades there are literally hundreds of thousands of accumulated condemned inmates awaiting execution on death row.

Clayton D. Lockett from Oklahoma was one of them. He was executed last year in an Oklahoma State Penitentiary. 

But, his execution went horribly wrong.  Because of the state using the wrong cocktail of drugs which all of a sudden, deviated from the norm.

Lockett's death by lethal injection took an hour.  When it ordinarily takes 10 minutes or less.

Lockett apparently wanted to commit suicide because he knew that the state was using cheaper less useful drugs. He feared his own botched execution.

 He tried to starve himself, it was learned. But when the "hangman" came for him in the early hours of April 29, 2014, he refused to comply.  So they tasered him. 

Once Clayton was subdued, it took the paramedics 45 minutes to locate a vein, they tried all areas possible, both his arms, legs, and feet, before they finally settled on the femoral vein in his right groin-Ewww! Lockett's veins were inaccessible. 

He was dehydrated because he hadn't eaten for 48 hours. The scary part is while he was on the gurney.  He convulsed and spoke he tried to get up off of the gurney, even though he was in restraints. He died from a heart attack an hour after he was tinctured with the lethal concoction. 

Also, in Ohio there were several death row inmates who took longer than usual because of the different mixture of lethal drugs. 

Later on it was discovered that the prison was getting these drugs from prison doctor's who made them up themselves.  Before the drugs were imported from Europe. Europe, however, discontinued making them and shipping them to American Penitentiaries. In Europe, drug manufacturers and pharmacies are growing increasingly against the death penalty.

Death by lethal injection is legal in 38 states.  But, the drugs now have been banned until further notice. Executions have been suspended until they can find another way to supply the proper drugs again. The death penalty to me personally is Barbaric, and I don't believe in it.