The mother of an executed prisoner in Ohio has sued the head of Ohio's prisons because her son's execution took 90 minutes. Apparently executions should only take 20 minutes or so. Who knew?
The most chilling part of the article:
Prison staff had problems finding a useable vein on Clark, and one vein they did use collapsed. The execution team also apparently tried to administer the lethal drugs through the original IV line by mistake, according to written accounts that the execution team is required to submit.Could you imagine having to wait that long? I mean, that is without even discussing the pain possibly involved.
During the first injection attempt, Clark finally pushed himself up and said, “It don’t work.”
During the second attempt at finding a vein, he asked, “Can you just give me something by mouth to end this?”
I'm vehemently anti-death penalty. That is not a question here though...it's simply, how much torture must a person endure? And who are we to inflict that torture?
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This is where I sound like a FOF staffer, but how much pain and suffering did this man's victims have to endure? I don't know what his crime was, but for the death penalty it had to be something pretty fucked up. I see a huge amount of irony in this woman suing because it took too long to execute her son. Would she have preferred that he be taken out behind the chemical sheds and shot in the back of the head?
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