Oklahoma's botched lethal injection marks new front in battle over executions

He told Lockett that Miss Neiman was still alive, but Lockett ordered Mathis to bury her. According to Tulsa World, Bornt wrote a letter that said: "Clayton being put to death by lethal injection is almost too easy of a way to die after what he did to

A death row inmate in Oklahoma had been trying hard to postpone his execution, which ultimately took place Tuesday evening. Clayton Lockett was in the process of being executed by means of lethal injection when the 

Last night, Clayton Lockett was tied down to a gurney in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. He sat behind a glass window, accompanied by doctors, lying in front of an audience of media, court magistrates, men and women associated with his correctional 

McALESTER, Okla. — What was supposed to be the first of two executions here Tuesday night was halted when the prisoner, Clayton D. Lockett, began to twitch and gasp after he had already been declared unconscious and 

Convicted murderer Clayton Lockett, who was 38, died of a heart attack more than 40 minutes after his execution began on Tuesday evening. Lockett reportedly writhed, gasped and cried out “Oh man” during the ordeal, despite having been declared