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| Oklahoma former prison warden: death penalty does not help families |
| By theguardian.com- Katie Fretland |
| Published: 04/29/2014 |
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As Oklahoma prepares for its first double-execution since 1937 after an unprecedented dispute between two courts, the governor and the legislature, the former warden of the state prison says he has come to see the death penalty as a very expensive punishment that fails to deter crime or bring closure to most victims’ families. Randy Workman saw intimate details of the death penalty that are kept from the public eye in the United States. As the warden of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester he handpicked secret executioners, walked people to their deaths and saw the process of obtaining lethal injection drugs. He participated in 32 executions during various jobs in more than two decades working for the corrections department before retiring in 2012. On Tuesday Oklahoma will kill Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner, at 6pm and 8pm respectively. Both were convicted of murder and had sought to challenge the constitutionality of a law keeping secret the source of the drugs the state will use to execute them. Read More. |
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