THE 90 MINUTES BOTCHED EXECUTION OF - Joseph Lewis Clark

Joseph Lewis Clark, was born on January 15, 1949 , in Ohio.


In January of 1984, Clark, armed with a gun, is said to have entered the Lucas County convenience store where Manning was working.
He demanded money, which Manning gave him.

Clark insisted that there was more, and David Manning eventually produced an envelope containing more money. At this point, David Manning allegedly “tried to ‘force his way on Clark then shot David Manning and fled the scene of the crime.

He was apprehended following a bank robbery a few days later. Police matched the gun from the robbery to the bullet used to kill David Manning.

Shortly after he was arrested, Joseph Clark tried to hang himself in his jail cell. He was taken to the hospital, where he remained for several days.

Upon his release from the hospital, Clark was taken to the police station where detectives explained his Miranda rights to him and had him sign a form indicating that he understood these rights.

Then, Clark signed another section of the form, indicating that he waived his Miranda rights, before confessing to the murder of David Manning.

Following Clark's indictment for Manning's murder, Clark challenged the voluntariness of his statement to the police, and an evidentiary hearing was held on the issue. At the suppression hearing, a psychiatrist testified on behalf of Clark.

The prosecution offered in response the testimony of the officers who interrogated Clark and the testimony of Clark's attending physician, who concluded that, from a medical-neurological standpoint, Clark was capable of making a decision on waiving his rights. Following the suppression hearing, the state trial court determined that Clark voluntarily and knowingly waived his right against self-incrimination. Clark's confession was subsequently introduced at trial.


Clark was sentenced to die on November 28, 1984, for the murder of 22 year old David Manning during a gas station hold-up in Toledo, though he also confessed to the separate murder of a convenience store employee.

He received a life sentence for killing another clerk, Donald Harris, who was just 21, the night before at a store on Hill Avenue.


Governor Bob Taft rejected Clark's appeal for clemency, saying he found "no justifiable basis for mercy."
on May 2, 2006,Joseph Lewis Clark, died by lethal injection at 11:26 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility for killing a gas station clerk during a spree of robberies in 1984 in which he also killed a convenience store worker.
he was 57 years at the time of his execution

The execution was set to begin at 10 a.m. It was the longest delay since the state resumed executions in 1999, state prisons spokeswoman Andrea Dean said.

The execution was slowed as the execution team worked to find a vein in his right arm.

After 25 minutes of trying to find a vein, the team strapped Clark to the gurney with a shunt in his left arm. Clark said, "It don't work" and "They're not working" as the team tried to start the injection.

A curtain separating the death house from witnesses was pulled shut. Clark could be heard moaning and groaning from behind the curtain.

When the curtain reopened at 11:17 a.m., Clark still had a shunt in his left arm and his eyes were closed.

Clark, sentenced to die in November 1984 for killing David Manning, had been on Ohio's death row longer than all but 11 of the 193 men on death row.

Prisons director Terry Collins said the vein in Clark's arm collapsed. Clark had a history of drug use, and Collins said that could have been a factor. "The team here is a very professional team. They're doing a very, very difficult job under difficult circumstances,"
Clark calmly but tearfully proceeded to give the longest final statement a lethal injection inmate has given.


In his final statement, Clark apologized to the victim's family. "I would like to say to family and friends that I didn't get to talk to, that was wondering how I felt, I would like them to know that I asked God to forgive me, that I asked the Lord to save me from my sins," he said. "And I asked God to forgive those who are participating in this here today."

After a long speech in which he thanked his family and friends, apologized to his victims’ families, and preached against the dangers of drugs, Clark quoted from the Martin Luther King, Jr., “I Have a Dream” speech in declaring himself: “Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, I am free at last.” Then the problems began.





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