Oklahoma Elected State Weasels May Be Worst Kind on Earth

The Proverbial Lion's Den

I had to read this story twice to make sure I was not reading an Onion article. But, I was not - here in part:

Recently an Oklahoma inmate named Clayton Lockett was slowly died after a botched state-conducted execution left him conscious and convulsing while strapped to a gurney. He eventually died of a heart attack some 43 minutes later. That's pretty bad and had a lot of national coverage. But, this part may be worse:

Oklahoma State Rep. Mike Christian (R) apparently sees no problem with Lockett’s slow and painful death.

According to a local news report, Rep. Christian said that he doesn’t care if inmates are killed by lethal injection, electrocution, firing squad, hanging, guillotine, or “being fed to lions.”

This is for sure one huge WTF moment for the Sooner State.

Sadly, Rep. Christian is not alone in his willingness to revive discarded methods of execution in order to ensure that state-sponsored killings move forward.

However, Rep. Christian may not be the good Christian that his names implies. One wonders whether he knows the contents and purpose of the 8th Amendment which applies to all states in the case of applying the death penalty? Extract: “... nor cruel and unusual punishment be inflicted...” 

I'd have to say that feeding death row inmates to the lions might, if not a tad bit cruel, is certainly unusual, don't cha' think, Mr. Christian???