Oklahoma Asks to Delay All Executions After Getting Wrong Drug

[Warren Stupidity]

WTF? What the flying fuck is wrong with these people. They need to stop even pretending they know what they are doing.

Oklahoma's attorney general on Thursday asked a court to delay all scheduled executions while the state reviews how it received the wrong drug as it prepared to lethally inject an inmate.

Attorney General Scott Pruitt said Oklahoma needed time to sort out why its Department of Corrections received a shipment of potassium acetate rather than potassium chloride for Richard Glossip's execution that was to occur Wednesday. Pruitt's move came hours after Gov. Mary Fallin said she was confident the state could resolve its problems in time for an execution set for next week.

"The Office of the Attorney General needs time to evaluate the events that transpired on Sept. 30, 2015, ODOC's acquisition of a drug contrary to protocol, and ODOC's internal procedures relative to the protocol," Pruitt's office said in its request to the state Court of Criminal Appeals.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oklahoma-asks-delay-executions-after-getting-wrong-drug-n437181

[darkangel218]

1. I think because I grew up in Europe, the idea of punishing inmates by killing them is insane to me

I could never wrap my mind around it. Killing a person who is already in custody, thus not a danger to society anymore, is MURDER. Yet, this practice is legal here, in United States. They even offer "viewing sessions of the execution, to the families of the victim(s) ffs

IMO, the Dept of Correction and Rehabilitation should add Death to their name too, because killing people is neither of the former names.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Oh I am disgusted by state executions, but the horror show of these incompetent

clowns completely unable to do this without botching it takes it to another level.

[PJMcK]

3. Agreed, but...

I grew up in the USA and actually love my country. But I've never understood the death penalty. However, you are correct: it's insane.

[LongTomH]

4. The 3-drug lethal injection 'protocol' was designed by an Oklahoma state medical examiner......

......in the 1980s to provide 'less painful and more (cough) humane executions.' He has since said: "I didn't think it would be carried out by idiots!"