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Oklahoma to execute two condemned inmates on same day
Posted on 4/26/14 at 11:18 pm
Posted on 4/26/14 at 11:18 pm
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OKLAHOMA CITY – Two condemned inmates at the center of Oklahoma's now-resolved legal confusion will be put to death Tuesday, the state's first double execution since 1937.
Gov. Mary Fallin announced her decision Thursday, a day after the Oklahoma Supreme Court removed one of the final obstacles standing in the way of the executions of Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner.
"The defendants had their day in court. The court has made a decision," Fallin said in a statement. "Two men that do not contest their guilt in heinous murders will now face justice, and the families and friends of their victims will now have closure."
The high court ruled late Wednesday that Lockett and Warner are not entitled to know the source of the drugs that will be used to kill them, information they had sought through a civil lawsuit.
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Two convicted murders are scheduled to be executed on the same day. Today the Oklahoma Department of Corrections announced they would execute Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner on April 29.
Warner’s execution will take place at 6:00 p.m. and Lockett’s will be at 8:00 p.m.
This announcement comes after the state Supreme Court dissolved the inmates stay of execution Wednesday night.
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Two executions on the same day is very surreal to see. Only 3 or 4 states have done it.
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Posted on 4/26/14 at 11:21 pm to Sentrius
Economies of scale.
Posted on 4/26/14 at 11:23 pm to Sentrius
Efficiency in government. Unbelievable.
Posted on 4/26/14 at 11:51 pm to Sentrius
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Lockett, 38, was convicted of shooting 19-year-old Stephanie Nieman with a sawed-off shotgun and watching as two accomplices buried her alive in 1999. Warner, 46, was found guilty of raping and killing his roommate's 11-month-old child in 1997.
Posted on 4/27/14 at 12:01 am to Paluka
And bleeding hearts are worried about them suffering some mild discomfort. 
Appealing your sentence to prove your innocence or you think the legal system fricked up or you think your lawyers fricked up is one thing, but I have to laugh my arse off at these killers freaking the frick out over being possibly uncomfortable when the drugs get a pumping. They sure as shite didn't make it comfortable for their victims when they killed them. You see what they did and I don't think anybody could have sympathy for them.
Appealing your sentence to prove your innocence or you think the legal system fricked up or you think your lawyers fricked up is one thing, but I have to laugh my arse off at these killers freaking the frick out over being possibly uncomfortable when the drugs get a pumping. They sure as shite didn't make it comfortable for their victims when they killed them. You see what they did and I don't think anybody could have sympathy for them.
Posted on 4/27/14 at 12:15 am to Sentrius
They should mix in a little Drano into the cocktail for these two.
Posted on 4/27/14 at 1:59 am to Sentrius
frick 'em. Hope they piss themselves and die like cowards.
"How can we claim to fight for justice if we do not serve justice?"
"How can we claim to fight for justice if we do not serve justice?"
Posted on 4/27/14 at 5:32 am to Sentrius
It's not about sympathy, just being better than the people you're executing. They're still humans, as tempting and easy as it is to find excuses to treat them as something less; gratuitous pain should still be avoided where reasonably possible.
Of course, mild discomfort is a different matter from significant pain, and efficiency needn't be sacrificed in the name of avoiding it. I don't support the death penalty at all, but if it's still going to exist, then I see no reason why execution by hanging isn't acceptable. Done properly, it's instantaneous; there is no gratuitous suffering. It's not costly at all, and unlike shooting (which is the other method that comes to mind), all funeral options are still open, if the families of the condemned wish for one.
Of course, mild discomfort is a different matter from significant pain, and efficiency needn't be sacrificed in the name of avoiding it. I don't support the death penalty at all, but if it's still going to exist, then I see no reason why execution by hanging isn't acceptable. Done properly, it's instantaneous; there is no gratuitous suffering. It's not costly at all, and unlike shooting (which is the other method that comes to mind), all funeral options are still open, if the families of the condemned wish for one.
Posted on 4/27/14 at 6:49 am to lsutothetop
I definitely agree hanging should be the method of choice. We've already wasted enough money on these pieces of shite, no reason for a costly execution
Posted on 4/27/14 at 7:14 am to GEAUXT
At the stake. That is what they deserve.
Posted on 4/27/14 at 7:17 am to GeauxxxTigers23
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Efficiency in government
If we started executing politicians.
Posted on 4/27/14 at 7:53 am to lsutothetop
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They're still humans
No.
Anyone who would rape and murder an 11 month old baby is NOT human.
Posted on 4/27/14 at 8:02 am to Godfather1
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Anyone who would rape and murder an 11 month old baby is NOT human.
This. The only way this guy could have been considered human is if he had waived his appeals.
Posted on 4/27/14 at 8:06 am to Godfather1
Yes, even still. Humanity isn't a trait to be given or taken away.
Deeply sick and disturbed? Certainly.
Absolutely not someone who should be allowed to exist in normal society? Unquestionably.
Someone who should be locked away for the safety of the rest of society? No doubt.
But they're still human.
Deeply sick and disturbed? Certainly.
Absolutely not someone who should be allowed to exist in normal society? Unquestionably.
Someone who should be locked away for the safety of the rest of society? No doubt.
But they're still human.
Posted on 4/27/14 at 8:24 am to Sentrius
Posted on 4/27/14 at 9:43 am to Sentrius
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The high court ruled late Wednesday that Lockett and Warner are not entitled to know the source of the drugs that will be used to kill them, information they had sought through a civil lawsuit.
I'm pro-death penalty in monstrous cases such as this where guilt is not a question, but not allowing the condemned to know the mix of drugs that will kill them is total bullshite, IMV.
The punishers are supposed to be better than the punished, and there's really no need for secrecy on the method unless there's some degree of embarrassment involved. Knowledge of the cocktail mix doesn't serve the condemned for very long, obviously, but it serves us in whose name it's being administered. I want to know how I'm killing somebody. I want that somebody to know how I'm killing him.
Posted on 4/27/14 at 9:49 am to Rex
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but not allowing the condemned to know the mix of drugs that will kill them is total bullshite,
To quote Hillary "What difference does it make?"
Posted on 4/27/14 at 9:51 am to Rex
The left wants to get lawsuits to stop the drug makers. I guess this is an attempt to protect them. I'd just pop then with a bolus of Potassium, the heart beats one time, and never repolarizes. Quick, as in a heart beat, no suffering, no pre-sedation crap drugs needed....
Posted on 4/27/14 at 9:56 am to Sentrius
While MLB eschews the double-header, Oklahoma embraces it.
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