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Friday, August 08, 2014

Clayton Lockett: The Case for Execution

Clayton Lockett: The Case for Execution
Dudley Sharp, independent researcher, death penalty expert, 832-439-2113, CV below

 Make the effort to think of your daughters, granddaughters and sisters, or any loved ones, as these victims and their family members were forced to do (1)

 During a home invasion and kidnapping:

 A, completely, innocent Stephanie Neiman, 19, was shot twice with a shotgun. The criminals made Stephanie watch as they dug her grave. Stephanie was placed, alive, in that grave, moaning and crying, and buried, alive (2).

 Summer Hair was anally and vaginally raped, twice, on separate occasions and different locations and forced to perform oral sex. She lived (2).

 Lockett gave a full confession, with no remorse (1).

 Lockett was an ongoing, continuing threat while on death row (1), just as he was before these crimes.

 In the full context of Lockett's crimes and his death, there is no reason for anyone to use them as a reason to abandon the death penalty and every reason to reflect on why some crimes deserve the death penalty.

 Remember Stephanie and Summer.

 Predictably, death penalty opponents are using Lockett as their newest poster rapist/torturer/murderer to fight the death penalty.

 Anti-death penalty legislators in the New Hampshire House of Representatives even used Lockett as the foundation for a re-vote on death penalty repeal.

 Fortunately, with that re-vote, the House had 7 fewer votes for repeal and 13 more votes for retention.  Thank you. The Senate refused to reconsider and the death penalty remains.

 Lockett's crimes call for more death penalty support.

 LOCKETT"S BOTCHED EXECUTION

 Death penalty opponents, in all states, are using Lockett's "botched" execution, in Oklahoma, to call for an end to execution.

 Lockett moved and made noises and media and other anti-death penalty folks went
apoplectic, seemingly, unaware that such are not only common in drug overdoses (3), but also when people are asleep.

 Nationally, 1% of lethal injections are botched, not 7% (3). 

 Could Lockett have exhibited those noises and movements while unconscious? Of course (3).

 "Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences at Dallas, which performed (Lockett's) autopsy, concluded that the cause of death was "judicial execution by lethal injection." But the report does not answer why the execution took so long and why Lockett writhed on the gurney." He " . . . succumbed to the lethal drugs he was administered, not a heart attack . . ."  (4)

"Toxicology reports said all three lethal drugs were found in Lockett's system — the sedative in brain tissue and elsewhere and the other drugs in his blood." (4) All drugs were in his blood.

This makes it unlikely Lockett suffered.

 But, we do know, as a fact, of the extraordinary suffering of Stephanie and Summer. Don't forget them (1).

 With executions, the proper protocol is to have a second IV line, ready to go. Had that been done in Lockett's case, there would have been a brief delay, then the second IV would have been used and no one would have even noticed. The IV line should always be visible, but was not in this case. The IV was not, properly, placed in this case. Plus additional problems - No excuse.

 The execution was botched - bad training, bad preparation - totally irresponsible, none of which proves that Lockett, ever, had any pain.

 We know what happened with all the blind speculation in McGuire's execution (3) in Ohio. Let's not continue duplicating that nonsense with Lockett.

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Nitrogen Gas; Flawless, peaceful, unrestricted method of execution 
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2014/09/nitrogen-gas-flawless-peaceful.html 

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1) "Friends of victim have zero sympathy for Clayton Lockett", New York Daily News, May 2, 2014, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/friends-victim-zero-sympathy-clayton-lockett-inmate-botched-okla-execution-article-1.1777463

 2) "Clayton Lockett (states): 'IN REALITY I AM PROBABLY THE MOST DANGEROUS TYPE OF CRIMINAL' . . .  'CAUSE I'M AN ASSASIN - POINT BLANK' "
http://www.ok.gov/oag/documents/Lockett%20Clemency%20brf.pdf
3) The (Imagined) Horror of Dennis McGuire's Execution
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-imagined-horror-of-dennis-mcguires.html

4)  "Drugs, Not Heart Attack, Killed Clayton Lockett In Oklahoma Execution: Autopsy", Tim Talley, AP, 08/28/2014


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No "Botched" Execution - Arizona (or Ohio)

No "Botched" Execution - Arizona (or Ohio)
Dudley Sharp

 "In 1989, (Wood) hunted down and shot to death his former girlfriend, Debra Dietz, and her father, Eugene Dietz." (1)

 "Debra Dietz's sister, Jeanne Brown, who was at the execution, said, 'Everybody here said (the execution) was excruciating. You don't know what excruciating is. Seeing your dad lying there in a pool of blood, seeing your sister lying there in a pool of blood, that's excruciating.'  " (1)

 "No one who witnessed the execution has said Wood ever woke up. It simply took a long time for him to die." (1)

 "(Arizona Department of Corrections Director Charles Ryan) said IV lines in the inmate’s arms were “perfectly placed” and insisted that Wood felt no pain. " (2)

He is correct (3), there could have been no pain, only sedation, sleep, coma and death (with apnea, shortness of breath, wheezing, other noises, etc. common).

 "Anesthesiology experts say they’re not surprised that the combination of drugs took so long to kill Wood." (2)

 “This doesn’t actually sound like a botched execution. This actually sounds like a typical scenario if you used that drug combination,” said Karen Sibert, an anesthesiologist and associate professor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Sibert was speaking on behalf of the California Society of Anesthesiologists." (2)

 "Dr. Zivot said that midazolam acts 'like a key in a lock,' attaching to a receptor in the body and causing sedation. Once the receptor is saturated, he said, 'it doesn’t matter if you give the person 500 additional doses or five million doses. It won’t have any more effect.'  " (4)

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The truthful media description for Dr. Zivot would be that he is an anti-death penalty activist, who happens to be an anesthesiologist.

Doc, death from overdose is a "more" effect: 

"In this setting, benzodiazepine use was more strongly associated with mortality than any other substance of abuse. Greater recognition of the safety concerns related to benzodiazepines and strategies to prevent diversion to illicit use are needed."

"During the study period, 2,802 participants were followed for a median of 67 months (interquartile range: 25–107). In total, 527 (18.8%) participants died, for an incidence density of mortality of 2.9 (95% confidence interval [CI] 2.7, 3.2) deaths per 100 person-years. After adjusting for HIV infection and other potential confounders, benzodiazepine use was independently associated with increased all-cause mortality (adjusted hazard ratio = 1.86, 95% CI 1.38, 2.51) and had a higher risk for mortality than all other traditional substances of abuse among this population." Both from:

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"The documents showed that Mr. Ryan personally directed the execution team to use the additional (14) doses. In his statement, Mr. Ryan said the doses ensured that '(Wood) remained deeply sedated throughout the process, and did not endure pain."  " (4).

 For an equally peaceful death, but a quicker one, use pentobarbital, alone, or nitrogen gas, the effects of which are well known.

 “ '(Wood's) sedation level was continually monitored and verified by the IV team,' Mr. Ryan said. The intravenous team included a doctor, he said." (4)

 Wood's breathing, wheezing and/or gasping is a product of respiratory distress, the normal side effects, as expected.

 That is easy for anyone to determine.

 1) Interview neutral, competent anesthesiologists.
2) Review the pharmacological characteristics of the drugs and their overdosing symptoms.

 Very basic. Very easy,  just as with the Ohio execution of Dennis McGuire (5), another case where folks jumped to the wrong conclusions.

 DRUG MANUFACTURERS ETHICS

 For alleged ethical reasons, European pharmaceutical companies, as well as the European Union,  have denied US execution jurisdictions the use of preferred drugs sodium  thiopental, propofol and others, thereby, knowingly bringing greater risk of pain and suffering for death row murderers as well as putting more innocent patients at risk, in their effort to spare murderers lives, for which they have had no success,  even though they would not deny those same drugs for euthanasia or abortion, even though both are banned by the Hippocratic Oath, but the death penalty is not (6).

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 Nitrogen Gas; Flawless, peaceful, unrestricted method of execution 
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2014/09/nitrogen-gas-flawless-peaceful.html

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 Also see:

 The (Imagined) Horror of Dennis McGuire's Execution
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-imagined-horror-of-dennis-mcguires.html

 Clayton Lockett: The Case for Execution (Oklahoma)
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2014/08/clayton-lockett-case-for-execution.html

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 1)   Execution of Joseph Rudolph Wood was NOT botched, EJ Montini, columnist, azcentral.com, 7/24/2014

 2) "Transcript shows concerns during Arizona execution", Associated Press, Washington Post, July 25, 2014

 3) Autopsy doctor finds nothing out of the ordinary in inmate’s execution, Gary Grado  Arizona Capital Times, July 25, 2014.

 4)   "Executed Arizona Inmate Got 15 Times Standard Dose, Lawyers Say", Fernanda Santos, New York Times,  AUG. 1, 2014

 5)  The (Imagined) Horror of Dennis McGuire's Execution
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-imagined-horror-of-dennis-mcguires.html
6)  Physicians & The State Execution of Murderers: No Medical Ethics Dilemma
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2009/10/physicians-state-execution-of-murderers.html


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