D-Con will do the job very well.

Condemned murderers' lawyers' have come up with another tactic to get their clients out of paying the penalties for their crimes. They are "concerned" about the safety, purity, and potency of the drugs used in executions. They want to know the source of the drugs. Pharmaceutical companies are understandably reluctant for that information to be released -- some of those people who claim all life is sacred, blah, blah, blah, are the very ones who might cause trouble for those companies in the name of keeping a convict from his just punishment.

And now we have the case this week of the convict in Oklahoma who took 43 minutes to die from a heart attack. No one deserves that, they say. Pardon me if I'm not very empathetic, but, yes, the man did deserve it. Here's why:


In 1999, Stephanie Nieman and a friend happened upon Lockett and his buddies attacking a man they knew when they stopped by the man's house. Neiman's female friend told authorities she was pulled into the house and hit in the face with a shotgun. With a gun at her head, she was forced to call Neiman inside where she was also hit with the shotgun.

The young women were bound with duct tape. Neiman's friend was raped by all three men. Then the original victim, his infant son, and the two girls were driven to a rural area. Clayton Lockett told the captives he was going to kill them all, the surviving victims said. He told Neiman to get out of her pickup, and he shot her twice. Then Lockett and his buddies dug a grave and buried her. For some reason, the other victims were taken back home and the murderers left in a stolen vehicle.

So, yes, he did deserve what he got and more. It took Stephanie Nieman a lot longer to die than it took him. And her surviving friend, I'm sure, will live forever with the memory of being violated by three men.
 All that aside, does it really matter how safe and pure the execution drugs are? Why can't we just run down to the hardware store, pick up a pack of D-Con, mix it into a solution, and run it through the IV? Administered thusly, I doubt it would take long to do the job, and they'd know where it came from. After all, it was made for exterminating vermin.

http://newsok.com/three-face-charges-in-perry-crime-spree/article/2656291