Oklahoma royally screwed up killing one of their prisoners this week. The line to his vein failed and the drug that was supposed to knock him out before they stopped his heart and his breathing never worked. The guy evenutally died an hour later from a heart attack. Cruel and ununusal punishment, anyone?

Why the fuck up? The New Yorker has a great article about the whys.

Oklahoma had run out of lethal-injection drugs for the same reason that other death-penalty states have also run out of them. As Jeffrey Toobin described in a Talk of the Town piece, the sole American manufacturer of sodium thiopental, a key ingredient in lethal injections, stopped making the drug in 2011. Death-penalty states turned to European manufacturers, but it became impossible to import the drugs to the United States, owing to the European Union’s commitment to wipe out capital punishment worldwide. Left with dwindling supplies, states shifted their execution protocols toward the improvisational, recombining drugs and seeking the services of compounding pharmacies, which are loosely regulated by the federal government.

Will this botched-up job at capital punishment shift public support for the death penalty?