From the Dallas Morning News: President Barack Obama on Friday called the botched execution of an Oklahoma inmate “deeply troubling” and announced that he will ask the attorney general to analyze problems surrounding the application of the death penalty in the United States.
In his first public comments on the case of convicted murderer Clayton Lockett, the president, who formerly taught constitutional law, expressed conflicting feelings about the death penalty and said Americans need to “ask ourselves some difficult and profound questions around these issues.”
Obama said the death penalty is warranted in some cases, specifically mentioning mass murder and child murder, and said Lockett’s crimes were “heinous.” But he said the death penalty’s application in the United States is problematic, with evidence of racial bias and the exoneration of some death row inmates. http://www.dallasnews.com/news/headlines/20140502-obama-seeks-analysis-of-death-penalty-in-u.s..ece
Oh, the crimes by the thug were "heinous".
Like what this dead thug to the poor woman:
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the death sentence given to
convicted murderer Clayton Darrell Lockett, of Ponca City, Oklahoma. Lockett was
convicted in August 2000 of the first degree murder of 19-year-old Stephanie
Nieman. Lockett was also sentenced to more than 2,285 years in prison for
associated non-capital crimes occurring that night, including assault with a
dangerous weapon, burglary, first degree rape, and kidnapping.
A
jury found that on June 3, 1999, Clayton Lockett and two co-conspirators, Shawn
Mathis and Alfonso Lockett, broke into the Perry, Oklahoma, home of Bobby Bornt.
They assaulted Bornt before burglarizing his home for drugs. While they were at
Bornt's home, two 19-year-old women arrived. The men repeatedly raped and
assaulted one woman, whose name is withheld as a victim of sexual assault,
before loading Bornt, Bornt's 9-month-old son, Stephanie Nieman, and the other
woman into Bornt's and Nieman's trucks and driving them to a rural location in
Kay County.
Bornt testified that he heard Clayton Locket say,
"Someone has got to go," before he put Nieman in a ditch dug by Shawn Mathis and
shot her twice. He also testified to hearing the men laugh about "how tough
[Nieman] was" when she did not die after the first shot.
Bornt and
the other victim believe they were spared because they have children; however,
both testified to hearing Lockett plan to kill them and take Bornt's infant son
to either a shelter or Bornt's parents' house.
But then the thug president shows he doesn't give a crap about the victims of these thugs, just about the thugs.
Idiot.
Merry Christmas!
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