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Does anyone have any sympathy for this botched execution?
Clayton Lockett, confessed to shooting and burying alive a teenage girl in 1999.
Tuesday night’s botched execution in Oklahoma, resulted in an inmate’s writhing death from a heart attack 43 minutes after he received what was supposed to be a lethal injection.
The inmate, Clayton Lockett, was confirmed unconscious 10 minutes after the first dose in the state’s new three-drug protocol was administered. The first drug, midazolam, is intended to render a person unconscious. But three minutes later, he began breathing heavily, thrashing and straining to lift his head, media witnesses said.
6:28 p.m Fifty milligrams of midazolam have been injected into each of Lockett’s arms to start the process, an attempt to sedate him before the second and third drugs are administered.
6:29 p.m. Lockett’s eyes are closed and his mouth is open slightly.
6:31 p.m. Mr. Lockett is not unconscious.
6:33 p.m. Mr. Lockett is unconscious.
6:36 p.m. Lockett kicks his right leg and his head rolls to the side. He mumbles something we can’t understand.
6:37 p.m. The inmate’s body starts writhing and bucking and it looks like he’s trying to get up.
6:38 p.m. Lockett is grimacing, grunting and lifting his head and shoulders entirely up from the gurney.
6:50 p.m. The execution has been ‘stopped.
7:06 p.m. Lockett’s execution was halted when it appeared the lethal injection administered to him was ineffective. Contrary to the description from media eyewitnesses, officials said he remained unconscious and passed away in the execution chamber.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...oma-execution-reignites-death-penalty-debate/
Clayton Lockett, confessed to shooting and burying alive a teenage girl in 1999.
Tuesday night’s botched execution in Oklahoma, resulted in an inmate’s writhing death from a heart attack 43 minutes after he received what was supposed to be a lethal injection.
The inmate, Clayton Lockett, was confirmed unconscious 10 minutes after the first dose in the state’s new three-drug protocol was administered. The first drug, midazolam, is intended to render a person unconscious. But three minutes later, he began breathing heavily, thrashing and straining to lift his head, media witnesses said.
6:28 p.m Fifty milligrams of midazolam have been injected into each of Lockett’s arms to start the process, an attempt to sedate him before the second and third drugs are administered.
6:29 p.m. Lockett’s eyes are closed and his mouth is open slightly.
6:31 p.m. Mr. Lockett is not unconscious.
6:33 p.m. Mr. Lockett is unconscious.
6:36 p.m. Lockett kicks his right leg and his head rolls to the side. He mumbles something we can’t understand.
6:37 p.m. The inmate’s body starts writhing and bucking and it looks like he’s trying to get up.
6:38 p.m. Lockett is grimacing, grunting and lifting his head and shoulders entirely up from the gurney.
6:50 p.m. The execution has been ‘stopped.
7:06 p.m. Lockett’s execution was halted when it appeared the lethal injection administered to him was ineffective. Contrary to the description from media eyewitnesses, officials said he remained unconscious and passed away in the execution chamber.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...oma-execution-reignites-death-penalty-debate/
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