Justice and Death Penalty: Views of Edward I. Koch and David Von Drehle Essay Sample

In April of 2014, Clayton Lockett was executed in an exceedingly brutal way. He was locked in a bleak room, knowing the press and loved ones were about to witness his death. Instead of being injected with a serum that would relax his muscles and make him fall asleep, Lockett’s body adversely reacted and went haywire for 40 minutes. The Oklahoma prison system got what they wanted, in the worst way possible. He passed away due to cardiac arrest from the stress on his body from a lethal injection, not the injection itself.