Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner to be put to death after appeal to know source of lethal injection drugs.
According to reporters tweeting from inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, the execution of Clayton D. Lockett has failed. Lockett died of a heart attack after the execution was aborted. The execution of Charles Warner, which
This debate is not about guilt, but rather about how the state will go about killing Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner and whether the plan violates the inmates' constitutional rights.
Clayton Lockett and another death row inmate, Charles Warner, were both scheduled to die Tuesday after a state Supreme Court ruled that the men were not entitled to know the source of the lethal injection drugs. Warner's execution was stayed 14 days.
We had been warned that the execution of Clayton Lockett, a convicted murderer and rapist who had shot his 19-year-old victim and ordered a friend to bury her alive, would take longer than usual. Jerry Massie, a spokesman for Oklahoma's corrections
Clayton Lockett writhed and groaned. After 43 minutes, he was declared dead
