Saturday, May 3, 2014
Oklahoma death row inmate dies after botched adminstering of lethal injection
[JURIST] Oklahoma death row inmate Clayton Lockett died of an apparent heart attack Tuesday shortly after doctors called off a failed attempt to execute him using a new cocktail of lethal injection drugs. According to the state corrections department, 13 minutes after administering [Reuters report] the drug cocktail Lockett regained some level of consciousness at which point doctors called off the execution. Locket died 27 minutes later. Lockett's botched execution came less than a week after the Supreme Court of...
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