Case Analysis : ' Clayton Lockett '

(Lamar 34). Many in fovor of the death penalty feel that if a sentence of death is handed

Looking at the data given about the murders in the past 40 years in Nebraska we see that less than one percent have actually ended in an execution. According to the U.S Bureau of Justice Statistics the average amount of time a person spent on death row in 2013 was 15 years and 6 months, but there have been cases that last upwards of 30 years. Adam Liptak, a writer for the New York Times, tells the story of Manuel Valle. “When he was 27, Manuel Valle killed a police officer in Coral Gables, Fla. In September, when he was 61, Mr. Valle was put to death for his crime.” (Liptak) Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote about that case and then went on to say “Our constitution was written at a time when the period between sentencing and execution could be measured in days or weeks, not decades”.

Kirk Bloodsworth was 22 when he spent eight years in prison, two of those on death row. He was wrongfully convicted. A 9-year old girl was raped and killed on July 25, 1984. Two boys had seen her walking with a man before she suddenly disappeared. The boys described the man to the police and the police came to the conclusion that the murderer was Bloodsworth. He repeatedly claimed he was innocent but he was found guilty and sentenced to death on March, 1985. After 8 years he finally proved he was innocent through DNA testing. He was released from prison on June 1993. He was paid 300,000 dollars (“Correcting”). The US should not institute the death penalty everywhere in the country because it would put us at risk of executing innocent people, costs us millions of dollars in administering the penalty and there is a better way to help the families of murder victims.

Anthony Graves was living on death row for almost two decades while being in solitary confinement. While he was proven un-guilty of murder he still has the punishment of eighteen years of living while being mentally and physically dead. After Mr. Graves was let out of prison, he still has to rethink about almost being killed because of a prosecutor that didn’t want to lose her case. How unprofessional could that be, letting someone rot in jail for a crime he didn’t commit, while the prosecutor knew of doubts, but went along like he didn’t hear it. The cost of one’s life is more than all of the money in the world, because once someone is lethally injected, no one can bring them back. Now I am starting to wonder about the death penalty and questioning myself is it fit for the worst of crimes for is it not fit at all. Kerry Max Cook was a former death row inmate that had conversations with Robert Earl Carter, "Anthony, I really believe, is innocent. I'm stunned that an innocent person is this close to execution (Rice,2005), was stated by former death row inmate Cook, that was let off for being proven

On April 29, 2014, Oklahoma execution Clayton Lockett using a three-drug lethal injection procedure. The procedure went poorly; Lockett awoke after the injection of the drugs that were supposed to render him unconscious and did not die until about 40 minutes later. Oklahoma suspended all subsequent executions until the incident could be be investigated and subsequently adopted a new protocol that place higher emphasis on making sure the injection was done properly. The new protocol is also allowed for four alternative drug combinations, one of which used midazolam as the initial drug, as the did the the protocol used in the Lockett execution.

The first execution was in 1982 with Charles Brooks, Jr. Death Penalty has become a very important issue in Texas. Many disagree on the harsh punishments others are given, especially those who are executed without any evidence and whom are not guilty. Cameron Todd Willingham was one of the innocent ones. He was wrongfully charged with arson and the murder of his three children.

In April 29, 2014, a man by the name of Clayton Lockett was executed in Oklahoma using a three-drug lethal injection. Although the Clayton did die of the injection, his death didn't come until forty minutes after his injections. A proper procedure was to be done, so that Clayton and any other man or woman given lethal injection would go to sleep with the first injection, the kept asleep with the second, and finally killed with the last injection. In Clayton’s case, he awoke after the injection of the drugs that we suppose to render him unconscious. After his death Charles Warner and around 20 other inmates began to sue multiple state officials and stated that the lethal injection was in violation of the 8th amendment, which

Terry Clark was the only prisoner on death row to be executed before the penalty repeal in 2009. In 1987, a jury found Clark guilty after hearing gruesome testimony that he abducted, raped, and shot his young victim three times in the head before he buried her body in a shallow grave on his brother’s ranch. Unsurprisingly, Clark filed an appeal with the New Mexico Supreme Court after the lower court’s ruling and sentencing. In State v. Clark, 772 P.2d 322 (1989), the court carefully considered Clarks many claims of trial misconduct.

Administering the death penalty to the South Carolina killer Dylan Roof is a mistake for several reasons. First, Dylan Roof should suffer in jail for everything that he did to those nine people. They were excited, charming to welcome a man that never been to church and to let him stayed with them to the Bible study class. They were not meticulous because at the end of the Bible study he decided to kill nine innocent people, but hopefully he gets what he deserves in jail.

Inmates in Oklahoma State Penitentiary, located in McAlester, Oklahoma, sued state officials after the botched execution of Clayton Lockett on April 29, 2014 led to Lockett laying in agonizing pain for 40 minutes after receiving the lethal injection cocktail, waiting for his heart attack to kill him (Konrad, Web). Richard E. Glossip and the other death row inmates petition the Court, believing that the use of midazolam as the initial drug of execution violated the Eight Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment (S. Ct, p.1). The Supreme Court of the United States of America denied the motion in a 5-4 ruling, stating prisoners “failed to establish a likelihood of success on the merits of their claim that the

Hector Alvarez I disagree with your opinion about District Judge, Henry Wingate making the right decision to postpone the executions of the two death row inmates. Fact is that most inmates will come up with any excuse to not deal with the consequences that they have brought upon themselves. The lawyers argument is built on assumptions that the lethal injection is not potent enough because the compounds were not released to the public. “Chemical torture” as referred by the death row inmates by the lethal injection is nothing compared to gruesome crimes they have committed during their lives with no intentions of rehabilitating during the time they were incarcerated. Should laws be reconsidered or postponed because inmates feel uncomfortable

Gandhi once stated “The death penalty is just another murder which is carry out by the state.” Abolitionist of the death penalty have a very different perspective then the advocate. Those who oppose it believes no matter how atrocious the crime is, the convicted should not be executed. One debate is that the condemned could be found guilty. More than150 death row inmate have been exonerated since 1976. (InfoBase 23). The execution of Troy Davis showed how inaccurate the death penalty is. Troy Davis was an African American man who was executed on September 21, 2011 for the accusation of murdering a police officer in Savannah, Georgia. (CNN). Many of the witness have changed their stories and some even admitted that they have been persuade and

The innocence project has exonerated 349 people and of those 349 people, 71% of them have involved eyewitness misidentification. In the Malcolm Bryant case, eyewitness misidentification was a huge reason why he was convicted. The witness testified against Bryant during court and was certain that it was him. David Camm and Malcolm Bryant were convicted based on testimony and evidence, which lead to issues in their cases, but they were later exonerated based on advancements in DNA testing.

The convicted murderer, Clayton Lockett was still able to perform normal movements after being injected with lethal injection for the first three hours when the drug was supposed to immediately take effect. The inmate reportedly suffered a heart attack instead, ten minutes after the execution began. Another convicted felon experienced the same effects Lockett had when supposedly injected by lethal injection. In 2009, the state of Ohio had stopped an execution of Romell Broom. Executioners had tried twenty times to get a needle into his veins with no

For the ten years this man sat upon death row and the three years prior to which he was sentenced to his punishment, he never regretted not taking the plea he was offered. He refused because he knew he was innocent. He never killed his wife, but the evidence, most of which was circumstantial, racked against him and even his attorney was defenseless. There was no convincing the jury of his innocence, despite the fact that he would never harm his wife. The federal government just spent millions of dollars to kill this man, making it even more impossible than it already is to pay off their trillions of dollars in national debt. The family members who knew he was innocent are grieving his absence and the injustice they face. Most importantly, however, the amount of wrongfully convicted people who faced capital punishment just increased.