Wrong deadly drug used to execute convicted killer Charles Warner, records show
The same mistake was almost made in last week’s scheduled execution of Richard Glossip.
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The execution chamber is seen at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. SUE OGROCKI/Associated Press file
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Charles Warner: Witnesses said Warner expressed remorse, said he loved his family and Jesus, and said: “I’m not a monster. I didn’t do everything they said I did.”
Posted: Thursday, October 8, 2015 9:00 am | Updated: 1:32 am, Thu Nov 5, 2015.
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44 comments:
Dianna Smith posted at 10:18 am on Fri, Oct 9, 2015.
This is about OK not following the law and has nothing to do with being "soft on crime"
Dianna Smith posted at 10:18 am on Fri, Oct 9, 2015.
This is not about sympathy for the criminal OR mercy for the criminal, it is about OK refusing to follow the law.
Ron Hill posted at 7:07 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
It is simple holm, I agree, but only to a rational mind...
John Swofford posted at 7:05 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
What the heck are you asking about Q. I'm not angry and I sure don't hate you. Just because I think you're a self-important toad doesn't mean I hate you.
grant holm posted at 6:52 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
It's so simple
Ron Hill posted at 6:19 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
You sound so angry and bitter John. Why the hate? Whatever could you be so, so bitter about?
Ron Hill posted at 6:18 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
holm, [thumbup]
John Swofford posted at 5:05 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
Name-calling like whacko liberals Q? You really bite. Did you know that. I feel sorry for anyone who is stuck in your family. Having to put up with you has to be a trail?
I guess it is okay if it's you doing the name-calling eh?
John Swofford posted at 5:01 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
Here's another one for you to turn in Royce. Tattletale, tattletale tattletale Royce is one!
grant holm posted at 5:01 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
It wasn't botched, he's dead
Lynn Long posted at 3:25 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
If you ever had a friend or family member murdered you wouldn't care how they were executed. I can promise the state shows them ten times the mercy they showed their victim. Absolutely no sympathy for them,
Ron Hill posted at 3:18 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
John Swofford appears to be in a name-calling tirade, and frustrated and bitter about something....
temper, temper....
Royce Currieo posted at 3:08 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
"Says the whacko conservative that everyone here knows has so little credibility it is laughable."
Another unwarranted and unprovoked attack on a fellow contributor which has been reported as such.
You reported this comment.
Royce Currieo posted at 3:05 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
"Oklahoma Corrections Department officials used bottles labeled potassium acetate for the final drug during the lethal injection Jan. 15 — in violation of protocol, the records show. Officials were supposed to use potassium chloride to stop Warner’s heart."
What a bunch of hooey. Whatever they used worked, so I couldn't have been a very serious mistake.
Dump these expensive drugs and adopt the guillotine for executions. History shows that the guillotine has been used for thousands of executions, and it has never "botched" one of them.
Dianna Smith posted at 3:03 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
This is NOT about what the criminal deserves or does not deserve! This is about obeying the law! After the last botched execution, Failing promised us it was fixed AND promised they would only use drugs on their protocol. They obviously could not or chose not to.
Dianna Smith posted at 3:01 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
The linked article is free NOW. When I tried it earlier, it linked to a page that would not let you read the rest of the article until you either input a password or subscribed.
Dianna Smith posted at 3:00 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
[thumbup] I agree wholeheartedly.
John Swofford posted at 2:45 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
Says the whacko conservative that everyone here knows has so little credibility it is laughable.
John Swofford posted at 2:43 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
Oklahoma needs to give up on state sponsored executions not only because they are incapable of getting it done right but because live without parole is so much cheaper, it is a much quicker closure for the families of the victim and the guilty, and it takes away the consequences of executing the wrong person.
John Swofford posted at 2:39 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
He'd never be able to add that up Sean.
Scott Headrick posted at 1:47 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
Dianna, the Tulsa World doesn't care, they don't have too.
Jim Smith posted at 1:47 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
Can anyone in DOC even READ?
Jim Smith posted at 1:47 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
The linked article is free.
Don't you feel silly now?
Ron Hill posted at 1:34 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
If this "wrong drug" had ANYTHING to do with the problems of the Warner execution, then there MAY be a point to this topic. But since it had NOTHING to do with the problems during the execution, this is just more liberal anti-death penalty wacko liberal hooey....
Gerry Smythe posted at 1:24 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
The good news is...
...We now know that potassium acetate works.
The bad news is...
...Since they used potassium acetate without checking compliance, they have ONCE AGAIN demonstrated the complete incompetence rampant at every level of our state government!
Ron Hill posted at 1:09 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
That's a reasonable comment. I don't necessarily 100% agree, but it's a reasonable comment, nonetheless....
J Meyer posted at 1:00 pm on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
Two bad words.... constitution and amendments. Read them at your leisure, but here is the eighth:
I'd post it, but we don't want facts to get in the way of a firmly held opinion.
State law allows for the death penalty, if you don't like it, organize, gain support and change the law in a civilized manner.
Federal law prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, if you don't like it, organize, gain support and change the law in a civilized manner.
"We are a nation of laws, not men." - John Adams
Dianna Smith posted at 11:52 am on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
Tulsa World: It is absolutely RIDICULOUS to put a headline at the top of your website that only links to another website that you have to PAY for in order to read the article on YOUR website!! I have ALREADY PAID for YOUR paper and website, I refuse to pay for another paper!!!
Jonathan Schwarz posted at 11:42 am on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
Uhh, I care. This is going to cost the State when they get sued. Well, the State taxpayers, so they should probably care. Oh, and since Clayton's botched execution led to delays in Warner's execution which led to the new protocols that weren't followed, I'd think both opponents and proponents of capital punishment would care. But other then those groups...
Hey, it's not like the AG for the State said “The state owes it to the people of Oklahoma to ensure that, on their behalf, it can properly and lawfully administer the sentence of death imposed by juries for the most heinous crimes." Which, apparently, it can't.
RL PORTERFIELD posted at 11:16 am on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
I'll donate a ROPE & even tie the knot,, if they can find a tree,,
oh wait they might pass laws & hafta require an Arborist to approve tree...
OK has become a laughing stock of the country,,
its a sad day when a Texan buddy texts me say'n "we know how to get the job done"
Sean Campbell posted at 11:12 am on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
You're thinking of the tactics used by anti-abortion groups.
Scott McConnell posted at 10:41 am on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
I was giving the thumbs up to Kevin, not Richard.
Scott McConnell posted at 10:40 am on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
[thumbup]
Scott Headrick posted at 10:38 am on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
I have zero sympathy for Charles Warner, but when the state executes somebody they must follow the rules to a T. We don't live in North Korea, where you can just dump someone in a pit with starving hogs. If Oklahoma keeps scruwing up like this, they will contribute more to the demise of the death penalty than anything else.
Scott Headrick posted at 10:27 am on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
Maybe our government is run by clowns? Did you ever think of that?
Ann Franklin posted at 10:15 am on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
Gordon Mills, exactly what we've been thinking since Glossip's botched execution. Wouldn't put it past those people - they're willing to do anything to save convicted rapists and murderers of innocent babies and adults.
I'm not exactly certain why all the hulabaloo regarding the 'deadly' wrong drug. I believe the point in executing Warner, Glossip and the others was/is to bring death to them, as they so unmercifully brought death to their victims?
Charles Bond posted at 10:02 am on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
Who cares how it's done. They have gun-like cattle killers that work on a cow's head & they work every time. They are also cheap.
Don't get me wrong, I hate that we have to execute anyone, but when folks make bad choices & take away all of the rights of someone, they too deserve to have all of their rights taken too.
Incarcerating people should also be a choice. If someone wants to go to school, so they have something to look forward too, as they are being rehabbed, that should be a choice, in lieu of rotting in a cell.
Here's the catch... if you don't toe the mark, you get the cell & maybe even execution.
But, you were given another chance....
R. L. posted at 10:01 am on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
Was she saying EGGS-acution?
Charles Bond posted at 9:55 am on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
Mary Failings employees can't get it right... no matter what they do... Maybe it's Mary that is failing us, not the employees.
They spent millions on the highway out here in Catoosa & the road is rougher than a washboard.
They're gonna spend millions on the Capitol Building & it too, will be a failure.
Maybe Mary should go too, as everyone of her employees is a poor representative of quality work, for the citizens of Oklahoma...
Gordon Mills posted at 9:49 am on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
One could justifiably think that there is a campaign going on behind the scene to 'botch' up death row executions in an attempt by the anti-death penalty activists to get the laws changed.
Richard Mishkin posted at 9:48 am on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
I was waiting to see who would post that response.
Tom Holmes posted at 9:40 am on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
EXACTLY KEVIN!! Go look at the crime he committed and tell me if that little baby had a choice!! Hope he is rotting in you know where right now!!
Steven Lees posted at 9:23 am on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
There's not that much difference in the two, accept Potassium Acetate is more expensive than Potassium Chloride.
Kevin Barrow posted at 9:13 am on Thu, Oct 8, 2015.
Who cares? It worked....he's dead. next story