“A botched execution that used a new drug combination left an Oklahoma inmate writhing and clenching his teeth on the gurney Tuesday, leading prison officials to halt the proceedings before the inmate’s eventual death from a heart attack.
Clayton Lockett, 38, was declared unconscious 10 minutes after the first of the state’s new three-drug lethal injection combination was administered. Three minutes later, though, he began breathing heavily, writhing, clenching his teeth and straining to lift his head off the pillow.”
Read more from Associated Press here: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/oklahoma-prepares-execution-2-inmates
Ana Kasparian, Jayar Jackson and John Iadarola of The Young Turks discuss this shocking story. Are you for or against the death penalty? Tell us what you think of capital punishment in the comment section below.
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Killed a woman during a burglary and got the death penalty? I’m guessing he was black and she was white. If not, he’d have probably gotten 25-to life or life w/o parole
Really, killing someone should qualify you for the death penalty no matter who you are, ya racist idiot. I repeat, if you KILL a woman during a robbery, YOU deserve to die, weather you are black of white. Now go jump off a bridge, you mental midget.