Deandra Gutierrez

Democracy Now #7

May 2

 

Oklahoma has released new details on the botched lethal injection of prisoner Clayton Lockett. An account provided by the corrections  chief  Robert Patton, shows the execution drugs were administered by a catheter inserted in Lockett's groin after medical personnel spent nearly an hour searching for another vein. A little over 20 minutes passed, when the doctor  noticed the blood vein had collapsed and the drug had leaked. The doctor then called off the execution, and Lockett was pronounced dead 10 minutes later, which was 43 minutes after the injection began. Also, the account shows Lockett was tasered earlier that on that day for refusing to be restrained and taken for x-rays. I find this interesting since my group is C.A.P.E. And deals with criminal justice. I feel like they should have made sure the lethal injection would work before using it. That way they would not have to deal with the blood vein collapsed. I wish this would give more information about this subject because it would be something I'd like to read about. The Obama administration has released a list of 55 colleges and universities that are under investigation for possible violations of the federal Title IX law because of their handling of sexual assault complaints. The full list that never before was made public, includes private schools, like Swarthmore and University of Chicago, public universities like Penn State and Florida State, and Ivy League schools like Dartmouth, Harvard and Princeton. On Thursday, students rallied at  Tufts University to protest Tufts' decision to back out of a government agreement to improve its polices after the government told the schools its current polices violate Title IX. I feel like this should be put on the news because it is very important that people know about this situation, and I feel like our government should take action and make schools do something about sexual assault on their campus.