Oklahoma used wrong drug in January execution: newspaper report
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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US | Thu Oct 8, 2015 2:19pm EDT
OKLAHOMA CITY | BY HEIDE BRANDES
Source: The Oklahoman
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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valerief
(53,235 posts)Do they have day workers doing these executions? Or just sadists?
LiberalArkie
(15,729 posts)"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
(1,786 posts)An acid.... no wonder his body was on fire.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)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
(1,786 posts)I misread the pH value of it.
Still not a good chemical to have injected...
7962
(11,841 posts)"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
(4,118 posts)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.
Judi Lynn
(160,631 posts)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
(20,771 posts)...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
(23,867 posts)tonekat
(1,820 posts)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
(160,631 posts)solar Max
(54 posts)When are we going to join the ranks of the truly civilized countries by banning the death penalty?