(on National Public Radio)
On NPR as I drive to WHOLE Foods on Saturday
morning an expert on executions WEIGHS
in on Oklahoma turning to nitrogen gas
for executions after failing
to obtain lethal injection drugs. The HOST
asks the expert what is the most humane
method of execution and the answer is
the firing squad. OklaHOMA botched
a 2014 execution with the drug midaZOLAM
and the inmate, Clayton LOCKett, called out
“Oh, man” after he was declared unconscious and, in
fact, died later of a heart ATTACK. OKLAhoma
state attorney Mike HUNTER explained the choice of
nitrogen gas thus: “We can no longer sit on the
SIDELINES and wait to find drugs. . .” The expert
this morning may have explained
why the firing squad is the most humane, but
I was APPROACHING more traffic and became
disTRACTED and when I came to
the subject on NPR had changed to something
FORGETTABLE.
John Levy
I love an artist,in this case a poet, who has the guts to confront the any of the
Comment by Donald Cole on 7 April, 2018 at 5:45 pmworld’s ills in his or her work.