While strapped down on the Oklahoma execution chamber gurney, Charles Warner screamed “My body is on fire … it feels like acid” before any of the lethal drugs were even administered
BarkGrowlBite | January 18, 2015
If they were to hand out Oscars for Best Actor in an execution chamber, Charles Warner would win the award hands down.
On January 15 the State of Oklahoma executed Charles Frederick Warner for the 1997 rape and murder of an 11-month-old girl. In his last minute appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the argument that the botched execution of Clayton Lockett on April 29, 2014 proved that Oklahoma’s three-drug lethal cocktail would subject Warner to agonizing pain, thereby violating his constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment. The four liberal Justices voted to stop the execution.
After Warner had been strapped down on the death chamber gurney, the execution began with a saline drip through the IV line. At that point Warner screamed “My body is on fire … it feels like acid.” His theatrics occurred before any of the lethal drugs were even administered.
When the injection of the first drug – midazolam – began, Warner repeated “My body is on fire” before dozing off. He was pronounced dead 18 minutes after the execution began.
It is believed that Warner’s theatrics were designed to help the appeals of those remaining on Oklahoma’s death row. Rex Duncan, an Oklahoma prosecutor, said, “I think what you witnessed is predictable, especially if it could be helpful to the guys behind him.”
On the same day, the State of Florida executed Johnny Shane Kormondy, 42, for the 1993 murder of a man during a home invasion robbery. Florida uses the same three-drug lethal cocktail as Oklahoma. That execution went off without a hitch and with no theatrics by Kormondy.
As for the Oscar winning Warner, it seems to me that for raping and murdering an 11-month-old baby girl, a dose of acid to make his body feel on fire would have been a befitting end to that worthless piece of shit.
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