Questions Raised About Lethal Injections After Botched Execution in Oklahoma on Tuesday
Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The deadly cocktails administered during executions are about to come under fire after a botched lethal injection involving Oklahoma inmate Clayton Lockett on Tuesday.
Newsweek reports that a doctor stopped administering the lethal injection about 13 minutes into the procedure after Locket lifted his head and began mumbling.
About 40 minutes after the lethal cocktail was administered, Lockett died of an apparent massive heart attack.
“We believe that a vein was blown and the drugs weren’t working as they were designed to. The director ordered a halt to the execution,” Massie said.
Authorities are bracing for serious questions about the viability and humaneness of lethal injections.
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Posted: 4/30/14 at 9:11 AM under News Story.
Tags: cruel and unusual, death penalty, execution, heart attack, lethal injection, Oklahoma
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