Injection Problems Delay Ohio Execution

[Judi Lynn]

Injection Problems Delay Ohio Execution
Problems Administering Injection Cause Hour Delay in Ohio Execution of Convicted Kille

By ERICA RYAN

LUCASVILLE, Ohio May 2, 2006 (AP)— Difficulty in setting up the lethal injection caused a delay of more than an hour in Tuesday's execution of a man convicted of killing a gas station clerk during a series of robberies.

Joseph Lewis Clark, 57, died at 11:26 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. He was sentenced to die in November 1984 for killing David Manning.

The execution was set to begin at 10 a.m., but was delayed as the team worked to find a vein in his right arm to administer the injection. Clark said "these don't work" and "they're not working" as the team tried to start the injection.

After 25 minutes of trying to find a vein, a curtain was pulled over the window separating witnesses from the area where the execution was to take place. Clark was heard moaning and groaning and when the curtain was reopened he had two shunts in his arm.

"This has never happened," prisons spokeswoman Andrea Dean said of the delay.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1913849

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Article published Monday, May 1, 2006

1984 RAMPAGE
Clark faces his day of reckoning for slaying
Execution is slated tomorrow morning

By JIM PROVANCE
BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU


He'd done "some things wrong, some crimes" and needed prayer so he wouldn't do them again, the caller who identified himself as Joe Clark told a minister on a Toledo religious radio program late on the night of Sunday, Jan. 15, 1984.

"I just want to get them out of my life," he said. "I want to get close to God."

The minister urged him to stay on the line so his screener could get information off the air and the minister could personally visit him. The caller hung up.

It's unclear what Joseph Lewis Clark was looking for that night.
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http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060501/NEWS24/605010338

[Up2Late]

1. This is so sick and disturbing...

...that people want to go watch something like this.

Here's the Reuters report: <http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=12041787&src=rss/domesticNews>

Ohio man tells executioners "It's not working"

Tue May 2, 2006 02:07 PM ET

By Jim Leckrone

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - A double murderer was put to death in Ohio on Tuesday but not until after one of his veins had collapsed, causing the condemned man to sit up and tell his executioners, "It's not working," officials said.

The Ohio Department of Corrections said Joseph Clark, 57, was pronounced dead at 11:26 a.m. EDT (1426 GMT) following an injection of lethal chemicals at the Southern Ohio Correctional Institution in Lucasville.

Spokeswoman Andrea Dean said the execution was delayed about 90 minutes because technicians had trouble initially finding a site in Clark's arm for the intravenous line carrying the chemicals.

Then shortly after the poisons were supposed to have been pumping into his body, she said, he sat up saying, "It's not working. It's not working."

(more at link)

<http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=12041787&src=rss/domesticNews>

[Judi Lynn]

2. Thank you for this story, Up2Late.

It will be one fine day when the country gets back on the path to civilization it was on before the rightwing death worshippers reinstated the death penalty.

[mtnester]

3. Man Executed After Difficulty Administering Injection

http://www.nbc4i.com/news/9145535/detail.html?treets=col&tml=col_break&ts=T&tmi=col_break_1_10430205022006

LUCASVILLE, Ohio -- A man who killed two people and wounded another during a string of robberies to get money for drugs 22 years ago was executed by the state Tuesday morning, following a delay of more than an hour, prison officials said.
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The execution was set to begin at 10 a.m. It was the longest delay since the state resumed executions in 1999, state prisons spokeswoman Andrea Dean said.

Clark said, "These don't work" and "They're not working" as the team tried to start the injection.

After 25 minutes of trying to find a vein, a curtain separating the death house from witnesses was pulled shut. Clark could be heard moaning and groaning from behind the curtain. When the curtain reopened at 11:17 a.m., Clark had two shunts in his arm.

"This has never happened," prisons spokeswoman Andrea Dean said of the delay.

[superconnected]

4. Weird.

I don't like institutional executions because there isn't a common penalty for each crime. Ie, he really wouldn't be dead if he had a better lawyer, or the defense had a worse one. Plus there's the potential for the gov to abuse them and execute anyone.

Other than that, as far as I'm concerned. 20 years too late. He's probably a whole other person now than that drugged murder who killed those people. But I will say, good riddence anyway, as I do believe people who gratutiously take someones life, should pay the ultimate price. He didn't mind charging someone else it.

no tears here.

[Astrad]

5. So you're against the death penalty except in cases

where you're for it?????

[superconnected]

7. You parroted back what I said, wrong.

I said I "didn't like" it, for one reason. I did not say I'm against it.

Btw, I can perfectly logically be against it for one reason and for it, for another reason(at the sametime). I bring that up to point out that even had your paraphrase been correct, it is still possible to be for and against something for different reasons.

[saigon68]

6. Here is Tiny Davis Fried in Florida ***"CAUTION NASTY GRAPHIC****

[Kailassa]

8. And here's an article about the murdering pedophile.

In 1982, the pedophile invaded the Jacksonville home of Tim and Nancy Weiler with the intent of raping their daughter, nine-year-old Kristina. Since Tim was at work, it fell on Nancy to try to protect her daughter.

http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/waters/edrw072700.htm

It would be "downright unneighbourly" of me to include more of the horrific account here.

There are no pictures on this page but photographs from Tiny Davis' execution are easy enough to find on the net.
And they are far less distressing than pictures of his 3 young victims would be.

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. pasting my text from another thread - I do NOT approve of a death penalty

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Read on:

"Although I consider myself in the terms available to be an Agnostic - I believe the Ten Commandments to be one heck of a good set of rules to live by.

"Thou shall not kill" being a pretty important one.

By killing someone who kills, we lose an opportunity to find out WHY, and therefore we lose the chance to study ways of preventing others from getting to that point where they feel it "necessary".

I think we need to study these people, talk to them, NOT torture or make their lives miserable - and discover the incidents that led up to the killing - and learn how to prevent it.

All murderers should be studied by different psychiatrists, not in an invasive way, but patiently and with empathy to their emotions.

We will NEVER solve the problem of people that kill people

By killing THEM . . ."

My text from another thread
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So

Some are saying to all the maybe killers out there it's ok to kill for YOUR(the state's) reasons

but they can't kill for theirs

they ain't gonna buy that

EVER