I knew the liberal media would have a field day with this, but lets address what the purpose of the execution was to begin with - ultimately, the guy was supposed to die and that is exactly what the outcome that was expected. Let me say this to make myself clear, I believe the death penalty is a strong deterrent for persons who ponder committing capital crimes. Obviously, it isn't strong enough or we wouldn't have people committing these crimes. So, I prefer to make these people live out their lives pounding large rocks into small ones daily because I believe hard labor will shorten most of their lives and serve as a better deterrent than sitting around in a prison cell for 15 years doing nothing, while running a gauntlet of appeals to have their sentence throw out, reduced or pardoned.
Having said that, I wonder why the same liberal media is so hyped about protecting hardened criminals and their rights, and yet, promote the killing of innocent unborn babies by the millions every year. Ever watched an abortion video and see what happens? What did they do to deserve such a vile and wretched execution? Dare we say it couldn't possibly be murder because they hadn't crossed the threshold of birth yet, when many people have murdered a pregnant woman and been charged with a double homicide? Somehow, I don't understand the premise behind murder being less than murder based on whose idea it was to commit it. And thus the paradox of our view of ourselves as becoming more civilized as the masses are more and more educated - of course with God banned from a mention on school campuses. Funny though, I've heard that education without God creates intellectual barbarians and it does seem to ring rather clear. We have no further to look than the Nazi's who put millions of Jews and "lesser ethnic" groups to death under their version of eugenics (look it up). These ideas were not created by your run of the mill, average IQ, high school graduates or less say under achieving dropouts. How many died under the intellectual ideologies put forth in communist Russia and China where power lay in the hands of the privileged few and the worship of God was banned? (Do the research - you may be surprised to find numbers in the hundreds of millions).
I'm certain scoffers at this would point to examples in the history of Christianity where such mass murders were carried out as well, but upon examining the new covenant of the New Testament and the true following if its message, we would certainly find again that those responsible were carrying out their own agendas, and often based their actions on their own intellectual interpretation, greed, or ideology and not that sanctioned by the Bible itself. (For you Deuteronomy scoffers - please indulge me and read the New Testament.)
So while I cringe at the media terming this a "botched execution" when death was the intention and the outcome. This is simply a way for the left to feel good about itself on one end of the argument for the guilt they deny feeling on the other. I do say that if it has to happen, then I agree with Chief Justice Roberts interpretation of the constitution when he said it "does not demand the avoidance of all risk of pain in carrying out executions." Certainly this person didn't care about the person he shot and then had buried alive. Again, I prefer prisoners work off their sentences doing hard labor that I feel would serve as a substantially greater deterrent than cooling it with cable TV and three squares a day at the cost of tax payers. Maybe I'm a bit old fashion but I do believe that the majority of people who commit these types of crimes, had they been working and trying to build a life for themselves, wouldn't have found their way into this kind of trouble as easily in the beginning because they would have been too busy to go looking for trouble. (My opinion - strictly based on the observation of a generation of hard working friends and colleagues who seem to do well under the dire circumstances some would call work.) I pray all the families and participants involved find forgiveness, God's mercy, and closure. What a tragedy in the end because who could truly win being on either side?