Tag: Clayton Lockett

• Sparky’s Revenge; South Carolina considers reinstating the electric chair.

  

  So, the State of South Carolina (previously responsible for executing then exonerating 14-year old George Stinney)   is considering dusting off Old Sparky. Difficulties in obtaining lethal injection drugs have caused a backlog on Death Row. South Carolina has numerous condemned inmates, wants to start executing them, but can’t obtain the legally-approved means to do it.…

  CrimeScribe

  January 14, 2018

  True Crime, Uncategorized

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• Oklahoma: The Botched Execution of Clayton Lockett

  Here’s an interesting link for the inside track on this debacle. It’s a preliminary summary from Robert Patton (Director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections) to Mary Fallin (Oklahoma State Governor):   https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8bT8f-N8gQvT0liN0I3d1NIRlU/edit?pli=1     Here’s the text in full. Further comment by me is probably unnecessary:  

  CrimeScribe

  May 1, 2014

  Odds And Ends, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

  8th Amendemnt, botched, capital punishment, Clayton Lockett, crime, cruel and unusual, death penalty, Death Row, Eighth Amendment, execution, executions, justice, lethal injection, Mary Fallin, murder, Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Oklahoms, prison, Robert Patton, true crime, unconstitutional