"We would resuscitate him," then execute him.
can someone explain this to me? i'm as slow witted as any othger brainwashed fookun american. but i just can't get my mind right on this one concerning the state execution of a convicted murderer in california yesterday. i fear (yes fear) my head will explode soon people keep talkin shit like that in my direction.
Death row elder needed 2 injections
Last words: 'Hoka hey, it's a good day to die'
Tuesday, January 17, 2006; Posted: 4:45 p.m. EST (21:45 GMT)
SAN QUENTIN, California (AP) -- In the end, California's oldest condemned inmate did not seem quite as feeble as his attorneys made him out to be in their efforts to save his life.
With the help of four big prison guards, Clarence Ray Allen shuffled from his wheelchair to a gurney inside San Quentin's death chamber early Tuesday, a day after his 76th birthday.
Though legally blind, Allen raised his head to search among execution witnesses for relatives he had invited.
"Hoka hey, it's a good day to die," Allen said in a nod to his Choctaw Indian heritage. "Thank you very much, I love you all. Goodbye."
Having suffered a heart attack back in September, Allen had asked prison authorities to let him die if he went into cardiac arrest before his execution, a request prison officials said they would not honor.
"At no point are we not going to value the sanctity of life," said prison spokesman Vernell Crittendon. "We would resuscitate him," then execute him.
But the barrel-chested prisoner's heart was strong to the end: Doctors had to administer a second shot of potassium chloride to stop it.
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Death row elder needed 2 injections
Last words: 'Hoka hey, it's a good day to die'
Tuesday, January 17, 2006; Posted: 4:45 p.m. EST (21:45 GMT)
SAN QUENTIN, California (AP) -- In the end, California's oldest condemned inmate did not seem quite as feeble as his attorneys made him out to be in their efforts to save his life.
With the help of four big prison guards, Clarence Ray Allen shuffled from his wheelchair to a gurney inside San Quentin's death chamber early Tuesday, a day after his 76th birthday.
Though legally blind, Allen raised his head to search among execution witnesses for relatives he had invited.
"Hoka hey, it's a good day to die," Allen said in a nod to his Choctaw Indian heritage. "Thank you very much, I love you all. Goodbye."
Having suffered a heart attack back in September, Allen had asked prison authorities to let him die if he went into cardiac arrest before his execution, a request prison officials said they would not honor.
"At no point are we not going to value the sanctity of life," said prison spokesman Vernell Crittendon. "We would resuscitate him," then execute him.
But the barrel-chested prisoner's heart was strong to the end: Doctors had to administer a second shot of potassium chloride to stop it.
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