Oklahoma: The state that couldn't kill straight

Oklahoma has come up with a novel sixth method of practicing barbaric state sponsored murder of undesirable citizens: torture induced heart attack. Alas, their ground breaking (for victim Clayton Lockett) procedure was discovered by accident rather than planned. Seems as though Oklahoma was experimenting with a three drug cocktail from secret suppliers to get around problems with established drug makers refusing to become access...ories to murder by supplying their products to the 32 Neanderthal states still in the killing business. These states all use lethal injection as their primary death weapon because it's cheaper than the gas chamber and 'Ol Sparky', less grotesque than hanging and the Firing Squad, and, until those pesky drug makers grew a conscience, efficient.

The three drug cocktail, is brilliant... in theory: Drug 1 knocks Mr. Bad Guy out; Drug 2 paralyzes him; and Drug 3 stops his heart. Voila, no more Stranger Danger. Unfortunately, when it comes to efficient killing, Oklahoma is still a 'wannabe' state. Drug 1 worked fine. Mr. Lockett passed out as planned, but while Drug 2 was being administered, he woke up, began breathing heavily, writhing, clenching his teeth and straining to lift his head off the pillow. State authorities pulled down the blinds so the witnesses would be spared their grisly incompetence, and halted the execution. I suppose if Lockett had survived, he would, like the hanging victim in the Old West if the rope broke before he died, been given a reprieve. His executioners were spared that embarrassment because Lockett expired from a heart attack a few minutes later.

While Clayton Lockett is guilty of killing one man, his last act in life was to temporarily save another man's life. His botched execution caused Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin to issue a 14 stay of execution for Charles Warner, scheduled to get the same three drug cocktail as Lambert just two hours later. Oklahoma officials should make Warner's stay permanent, as well as ending Oklahoma's involvement in the revenge murder business