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2017-04-29 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Coughing, convulsing and calls for probe after Arkansas execution

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 A harmless, routine allergic reaction which rarely lasts more than a few minutes.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-29 02:40|| 2017-04-29 02:40|| Front Page Top

#2 jerked and gasped for air

Perhaps the gurney comfort pillows induced apnea.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-04-29 03:21|| 2017-04-29 03:21|| Front Page Top

#3 The state said it was a routine execution lasting about 15 minutes, but critics said something was amiss.

Well, they would.

And as far as the mutt in question:

Kenneth Williams, 38, initially was sentenced to life in prison for the 1998 killing of Dominique Hurd, a university cheerleader. He was later convicted of capital murder after he escaped from prison in 1999 and killed Cecil Boren.

I'm having a hard time working up ANY sympathy here.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-04-29 07:50|| 2017-04-29 07:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Was there any convulsing with Madame Guillotine? No FDA approval required. Does Utah still have firing squads?

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-04-29 08:24|| 2017-04-29 08:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Kenneth Williams, 38, initially was sentenced to life in prison for the 1998 killing of Dominique Hurd, a university cheerleader

which involved coughing, convulsing, and death, soooo....

Posted by Frank G 2017-04-29 09:25|| 2017-04-29 09:25|| Front Page Top

#6 It's an execution, not a SleepTrain commercial for God's sake. Any discomfort incidental to rendering him room temperature is merely sop to to those of us with more biblical ideas about justice.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2017-04-29 11:43|| 2017-04-29 11:43|| Front Page Top

#7 #4 Was there any convulsing with Madame Guillotine? No FDA approval required. Does Utah still have firing squads?
Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-04-29 08:24

Wasn't so much convulsing as a strong twitch.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-04-29 12:08|| 2017-04-29 12:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Ya know, I'll go along with a probe if it includes a mulligan. If the inmate died then let the lawyer take its place.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-04-29 15:51|| 2017-04-29 15:51|| Front Page Top

#9 If he can't kill anymore cheerleaders, the process was obviously a success

Posted by Regular joe 2017-04-29 16:53|| 2017-04-29 16:53|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm failing to see the problem here.

Posted by Crusader 2017-04-29 17:40|| 2017-04-29 17:40|| Front Page Top

#11 Utah brings back firing squad

Posted by Skidmark 2017-04-29 21:44|| 2017-04-29 21:44|| Front Page Top

#12 What, they expected him to survive?

I say they should have locked all the death row inmates, their lawyers, the pro-murder activists who led to this situation, four steak knives and a glass of water in a room. Let them settle the appropriate outcome.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2017-04-29 22:39|| 2017-04-29 22:39|| Front Page Top

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