What the media isn't telling you about the Botched Execution in Oklahoma

You've probably heard by now about the botched execution in Oklahoma, the one in which a man died of a heart attack 43 minutes after the execution took place.

But did you know that the man that died of a heart attack-Clayton Lockett-shot and buried alive a 19-year old who just graduated high school and that the man who was scheduled to be executed after him-Charles Warner-raped and murdered an 11-month old baby girl? Probably not, because for some strange reason there hasn't been any TV coverage of why these two men are on death row in the first place.

In 1999, Lockett forced 19-year old Stephanie Neiman to witness one of her friends being gang raped and then ordered his accomplices to bury her alive after shooting her. Two year later, Warner raped and murdered Adriana Waller, the baby daughter of his girlfriend.

Now, I'm not saying that you are wrong if you don't believe in the death penalty. If you believe nobody should be executed no matter how heinous a crime that person commited, that's a valid opinion to have.

But I do not believe anyone should immediately start being against the death penalty because of what happened in Oklahoma without knowing all the facts.

For me, after discovering the circumstances that led these two men to be on death row, I feel that they got/are getting exactly what they deserve.

The debate about the death penalty has been going on for quite a few years now. But I believe a bigger debate needs to take place on how to prevent horrible acts like the ones Lockett and Warner committed from happening in the first place. 

Why "How I Met Your Mother" Finale should have included funeral scene

According to Alyson Hannigan, the series finale of How I Met Your Mother could have been a lot more gut-wrenching.

A scene showing Tracy's funeral that was included in the script was cut because the creators thought it would hit the viewers, and us fans, way too hard.

But even if this scene had been gut-wrenching, I believe Carter Bays and Craig Thomas made a terrible mistake by not including it in the finale.

For starters, I believe it would have helped many fans be ok with Ted ending up with Robin. While I was satisfied with how the series turned out, I feel that the last five minutes were too rushed from Ted meeting Tracy to Ted wanting to date Robin again. It isn't until Penny says "Come on Dad, Mom's been gone for six years now, it's time" that the viewer knows for certain that the mother is dead and that she has been dead for six years. Before she says this, it's easy to assume that Tracy could be dying in a hospital or that she just recently passed away. Showing Tracy's funeral and her tombstone would have shown viewers that Ted had been a widowed father for six years before it cut back to him finishing telling the story to his kids.

Unfortunately, this scene wasn't shot, so we won't get a chance to view it on the season nine DVD. Which is a shame, because it's a scene that might have given fans a lot more closure.