New documents reveal botched execution details
10 years ago

New documents reveal botched execution details

CNN  

Washington CNN — Death row prisoner Clayton Lockett, who ultimately died after Oklahoma officials botched his execution in 2014, played a role in helping his execution team try to find a viable vein, according to new documents released last week. The paramedic, whose name is not revealed, said Lockett was “very cooperative” and that at one point the prisoner said, “I’ve got a vein in my leg – in my right leg.” READ: Court won’t fast-track review of Obama’s immigration action The paramedic said she told Lockett she didn’t like using such veins “because they cause a lot of clots.” “Does it really matter?” Lockett responded, according to a transcript. “The execution team didn’t have the size needles they needed, they couldn’t find veins that would work and the drugs didn’t start taking effect when they thought they would,” Aspinwall said. “Oklahoma’s execution protocol has been affirmed as constitutional by two federal courts and has successfully been implemented in Oklahoma as well as more than 10 similar executions in Florida,” he said in a statement.

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Oklahoma executes a man for a 1992 killing despite board recommending his life be spared
6 months, 1 week ago

Oklahoma executes a man for a 1992 killing despite board recommending his life be spared

Associated Press  

McALESTER, Okla. — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for his role in the 1992 fatal shooting of a convenience store owner after the governor again rejected a recommendation from the state’s parole board to spare a death row inmate’s life. Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and was declared dead at 10:17 a.m. “A …

Things to know about Idaho’s botched execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech
1 year, 1 month ago

Things to know about Idaho’s botched execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech

Associated Press  

KUNA, Idaho — For nearly an hour, Thomas Eugene Creech lay strapped to a table in an Idaho execution chamber as medical team members poked and prodded at his arms and legs, hands and feet, trying to find a vein through which they could end his life. Creech’s death warrant, issued by Fourth Judicial District Judge Jason Scott, said his …

US State halts serial killer's execution after failed attempts to find vein for lethal injection
1 year, 1 month ago

US State halts serial killer's execution after failed attempts to find vein for lethal injection

Deccan Chronicle  

Idaho halted the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech on Wednesday after medical team members repeatedly failed to find a vein where they could establish an intravenous line to carry out the lethal injection.Creech, 73, has been in prison half a century, convicted of five murders in three states and suspected of several more. He was already serving a …

More Than A Third Of U.S. Executions This Year Were 'Botched,' Report Finds
2 years, 3 months ago

More Than A Third Of U.S. Executions This Year Were 'Botched,' Report Finds

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING More than a third of executions in America this year were “botched,” according to a shocking new report — a record in a period of time when capital punishment is at a 30-year low. Seven of 20 execution efforts were clearly “visually problematic,” stated a year-end report by the Death Penalty Information Center. Robert Dunham, executive director …

Man facing death in couple’s fatal stabbing gets reprieve
3 years ago

Man facing death in couple’s fatal stabbing gets reprieve

Associated Press  

HOUSTON — A Texas inmate who was scheduled to be the first to be executed by the state this year received a reprieve from an appeals court on Thursday. Michael Dean Gonzales had been set to receive a lethal injection on Tuesday evening for fatally stabbing an elderly couple during a burglary of their West Texas home nearly 30 years …

Oklahoma Executes Man Days Before A Trial On Whether Its Lethal Injection Method Is Legal
3 years, 1 month ago

Oklahoma Executes Man Days Before A Trial On Whether Its Lethal Injection Method Is Legal

Huff Post  

The state of Oklahoma executed Gilbert Postelle, 35, on Thursday. Gilbert Postelle's clemency application The state of Oklahoma on Thursday executed Gilbert Postelle, 35, a man with an IQ that approaches an intellectual disability who suffered from neglect and drug addiction as a child. Postelle is the fourth person killed by the state in recent months amid a lawsuit over …

John Grant: Oklahoma accused of botching first execution after 6-year hiatus
3 years, 5 months ago

John Grant: Oklahoma accused of botching first execution after 6-year hiatus

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Oklahoma killed its first …

Vomiting, convulsions raise questions about US man’s execution
3 years, 5 months ago

Vomiting, convulsions raise questions about US man’s execution

Al Jazeera  

John Grant was the first person put to death in Oklahoma six years after the state botched a series of lethal injections. “Inmate Grant’s execution was carried out in accordance with Oklahoma Department of Corrections’ protocols and without complication,” communications director Justin Wolf said in a statement. ‘Problematic’ protocol A lawsuit challenging Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocols is scheduled to go …

Oklahoma Carries Out Third Consecutive Botched Execution After Yearslong Hiatus
3 years, 5 months ago

Oklahoma Carries Out Third Consecutive Botched Execution After Yearslong Hiatus

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING After a six-year pause, Oklahoma carried out its third consecutive botched execution Thursday, causing 60-year-old John Marion Grant to vomit, convulse and curse as he was killed with a lethal injection of three drugs. There should be no more executions in Oklahoma until we go trial in February to address the state’s problematic lethal injection protocol.” John …

Timeline of events involving capital punishment in Oklahoma
3 years, 5 months ago

Timeline of events involving capital punishment in Oklahoma

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma conducted 112 executions from 1976 to October 2015, when the state imposed a moratorium following three consecutive flawed executions or attempted executions. The U.S. Supreme Court says later it will consider whether Oklahoma can use midazolam during executions, but it doesn’t disrupt Warner’s rescheduled execution. — June 29, 2015: A divided U.S. Supreme Court upholds Oklahoma’s …

Federal appeals court temporarily halts Oklahoma executions
3 years, 5 months ago

Federal appeals court temporarily halts Oklahoma executions

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal appeals court granted stays of execution on Wednesday for two Oklahoma inmates who were scheduled to receive lethal injections in the coming weeks. The panel wrote, “We find nothing in the relevant case law that specifically requires a prisoner to designate a method of execution to be used in his case by ‘checking a box’ …

Oklahoma inmate seeks clemency ahead of execution: ‘The state created a broken man’
3 years, 5 months ago

Oklahoma inmate seeks clemency ahead of execution: ‘The state created a broken man’

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Ahead of a planned clemency hearing on Tuesday, …

Death row inmate sues after ‘botched’ execution
7 years ago

Death row inmate sues after ‘botched’ execution

CNN  

Story highlights A death row inmate whose execution was "botched and bloody" is asking not to be put to death His attorneys cite cruel and unusual punishment and double jeopardy in court filings CNN — An Alabama death row inmate whose execution went wrong is asking that his death sentence be vacated. In two civil actions filed Wednesdaywith the Alabama …

Lethal injection: A painless execution or a deadly weapon?
7 years, 11 months ago

Lethal injection: A painless execution or a deadly weapon?

New Indian Express  

Clayton D Lockett: An hour before the execution began on April 29, 2014, the governor was notified that the executioner was having problems finding a usable vein, but she did not intervene. Ten minutes after the administration of the first drug, a sedative, the physician supervising the process announced that the inmate was unconscious, and therefore ready to receive the …

Lethal injection: A painless execution or a deadly weapon?
7 years, 11 months ago

Lethal injection: A painless execution or a deadly weapon?

New Indian Express  

Clayton D Lockett: An hour before the execution began on April 29, 2014, the governor was notified that the executioner was having problems finding a usable vein, but she did not intervene. Ten minutes after the administration of the first drug, a sedative, the physician supervising the process announced that the inmate was unconscious, and therefore ready to receive the …

Arkansas' gruesome planned murder spree tells us everything wrong with the death penalty in America
7 years, 11 months ago

Arkansas' gruesome planned murder spree tells us everything wrong with the death penalty in America

Salon  

In the summer of 1999, Clayton Lockett and two accomplices, including a man named Shawn Mathis, were burglarizing a home when they were interrupted by 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman as she dropped off her friend, who happened to live there. The Guardian's Katie Fretland reported earlier that week: The state plans to lethally inject Lockett... with midazolam followed by vecuronium bromide …

Oklahoma halts executions after using wrong drug on inmate
9 years, 5 months ago

Oklahoma halts executions after using wrong drug on inmate

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — Gov. Fallin said “it became apparent” last week that prison officials used potassium acetate — not potassium chloride, as required under the state’s protocol — to execute Charles Frederick Warner in January. It says the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner received two syringes labeled “potassium chloride,” but that the vials used to fill the syringes were …

Oklahoma court sets execution dates for 3 death row inmates
9 years, 8 months ago

Oklahoma court sets execution dates for 3 death row inmates

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s highest criminal court on Wednesday set execution dates for three death row inmates who challenged the use of a drug that will be used in their lethal injections. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set execution dates of Sept. 16 for 52-year-old Richard Eugene Glossip, Oct. 7 for 50-year-old Benjamin Robert Cole, and Oct. 28 for …

Records show Oklahoma inmate chatted with execution team
10 years ago

Records show Oklahoma inmate chatted with execution team

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — A condemned Oklahoma inmate calmly chatted with members of his execution team and even recommended a vein to the paramedic in charge of setting up his intravenous line, according to documents released Tuesday related to the botched lethal injection last spring. DPS released a 32-page summary of its investigation in September, which blamed most of the execution’s …

Inmate shows no obvious distress in Oklahoma execution
10 years, 2 months ago

Inmate shows no obvious distress in Oklahoma execution

Associated Press  

McALESTER, Okla. — In its first lethal injection since a botched one last spring, Oklahoma executed a convicted killer with a three-drug method also used by Florida for an execution the same night. In an execution Thursday that lasted 18 minutes, Oklahoma inmate Charles Frederick Warner showed no physical signs of distress after the lethal drugs were administered, although he …

Oklahoma resumes executions by lethal injection
10 years, 2 months ago

Oklahoma resumes executions by lethal injection

CNN  

Story highlights Oklahoma put a hold on executions after a botched one in April State resumed them Thursday with a lethal injection cocktail containing a controversial sedative Inmate Richard Glossip, set to die January 29, says bungled execution adds to his anxiety CNN — Richard Glossip has spent 17 years in a tiny cell in H Unit of the Oklahoma …

Appeals court rules Oklahoma executions can proceed
10 years, 2 months ago

Appeals court rules Oklahoma executions can proceed

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal appeals court on Monday denied a request by four Oklahoma death row inmates for a stay of execution, paving the way for the state’s first lethal injection since a problematic execution in the spring. “We will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent the scheduled executions from going forward due to the substantial risk of …

Oklahoma report: Executioners need more training
10 years, 6 months ago

Oklahoma report: Executioners need more training

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma turned to a 15-year physician and a medical technician with 40 years’ experience to put Clayton Lockett to death, yet his execution still went awry. “We think that the IV was a big issue with the execution.” Out of modesty, no one monitored an intravenous line that had been placed in Lockett’s groin before the start …

Misplaced IV Line Responsible For Botched Oklahoma Execution, Report Finds
10 years, 6 months ago

Misplaced IV Line Responsible For Botched Oklahoma Execution, Report Finds

NPR  

Misplaced IV Line Responsible For Botched Oklahoma Execution, Report Finds A misplaced intravenous line was responsible for the botched execution of an Oklahoma inmate last April, an official report released on Thursday found. Clayton D. Lockett suffered a prolonged execution because the IV line inserted into his groin area delivered the fatal dosage of drugs to the surrounding tissue rather …

Autopsy on executed Oklahoma inmate cites IV issue
10 years, 9 months ago

Autopsy on executed Oklahoma inmate cites IV issue

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — The team responsible for executing an Oklahoma inmate failed multiple times to insert an intravenous line into his body to deliver lethal drugs, even though the man’s veins were in good condition, according to a private autopsy released Friday by attorneys for Oklahoma death row prisoners. A doctor overseeing the April 29 execution suggested tapping a vein …

Botched Oklahoma execution stirs outrage, may bring changes
10 years, 11 months ago

Botched Oklahoma execution stirs outrage, may bring changes

LA Times  

After a grisly history of electrocutions, gassings, hangings and firing squads, it is the cold, quiet science of lethal injections that has become America’s most common and favored method of executing its worst criminals. “I think everyone would recognize that this case fell short of that standard.” Much of the criticism was directed at Oklahoma state officials, who had waged …

Oklahoma inmate dies after execution is botched
10 years, 11 months ago

Oklahoma inmate dies after execution is botched

Associated Press  

McALESTER, Okla. — A botched execution that used a new drug combination left an Oklahoma inmate writhing and clenching his teeth on the gurney Tuesday, leading prison officials to halt the proceedings before the inmate’s eventual death from a heart attack. Clayton Lockett, 38, was declared unconscious 10 minutes after the first of the state’s new three-drug lethal injection combination …

Oklahoma inmate dies after execution is botched
10 years, 11 months ago

Oklahoma inmate dies after execution is botched

Associated Press  

McALESTER, Oklahoma — A botched execution that used a new drug combination left an Oklahoma inmate writhing and clenching his teeth on the gurney Tuesday, leading prison officials to halt the proceedings before the inmate’s eventual death from a heart attack. Clayton Lockett, 38, was declared unconscious 10 minutes after the first of the state’s new three-drug lethal injection combination …

Execution of Clayton Lockett is horribly botched in Oklahoma
10 years, 11 months ago

Execution of Clayton Lockett is horribly botched in Oklahoma

Daily Mail  

Killer dies of heart attack after FORTY MINUTES writhing in agony and sitting up to say 'something's wrong' when experimental drug execution causes his veins to explode Clayton Lockett execution halted 20 minutes after first drug administered The cocktail of injections have not been tried in Oklahoma before For reasons unclear the drugs didn't kill him Lockett sat up 14 …

Drug Protocol Goes Wrong In Oklahoma Execution
10 years, 11 months ago

Drug Protocol Goes Wrong In Oklahoma Execution

NPR  

Drug Protocol Goes Wrong In Oklahoma Execution A death-row inmate died of a heart attack after the state attempted to execute him by lethal injection. In McAlester, Okla., last night, convicted murderer Clayton Lockett died in the state's execution chamber, but not the way prison officials had planned. BRANSTETTER: Well, I think this turn of events has left people with …

Q&A: Details on botched execution in Oklahoma and what happens next
10 years, 11 months ago

Q&A: Details on botched execution in Oklahoma and what happens next

LA Times  

Calvin Lockett writhed and grimaced during his botched execution in Oklahoma on Tuesday, and even though the convict was supposed to die, the manner of his slow death, has touched off a renewed furor over capital punishment in the United States. According to witnesses and the state’s official comment, Lockett, a convicted murderer and rapist, was brought to the execution …

Oklahoma prison botches inmate execution
10 years, 11 months ago

Oklahoma prison botches inmate execution

Al Jazeera  

Death from heart attack after failed delivery of new drug cocktail forces 14-day delay of second prisoner execution. Clayton Lockett, who along with fellow prisoner Charles Warner mounted a legal challenge regarding the cocktail of medicines to be used to kill them, died of a heart attack in Oklahoma on Tuesday. The director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Robert …

Botched Oklahoma Execution Prompts Questions About Lethal Injection
10 years, 11 months ago

Botched Oklahoma Execution Prompts Questions About Lethal Injection

NPR  

Botched Oklahoma Execution Prompts Questions About Lethal Injection Enlarge this image Amber Hunt/AP Amber Hunt/AP The botched execution of death row inmate Clayton Lockett on Tuesday in Oklahoma is sparking a reassessment of lethal injection. The Washington Post says Lockett's aborted execution and subsequent death by heart attack, along with ongoing controversies over the drugs used and how they are …

Oklahoma Governor Calls For Review Of Botched Execution
10 years, 11 months ago

Oklahoma Governor Calls For Review Of Botched Execution

NPR  

Oklahoma Governor Calls For Review Of Botched Execution Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has ordered an "independent review" of the state's execution procedures and halted any further executions until the review is complete. As we reported, after a long legal and political battle, the state proceeded with Lockett's execution using a novel combination of drugs. Fallin said she expects the review, …

UPDATED: After One Botched Execution, Oklahoma Stays A Second
10 years, 11 months ago

UPDATED: After One Botched Execution, Oklahoma Stays A Second

NPR  

UPDATED: After One Botched Execution, Oklahoma Stays A Second Update at 8:19 p.m. Execution Fails: Enlarge this image toggle caption Uncredited/AP Uncredited/AP According to reporters tweeting from inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, the execution of Clayton D. Lockett has failed. Update at 11:02 p.m. Attorney Says Warner 'Tortured To Death': Warner's attorney issued a statement calling for …

US court rejects death row inmates’ claims
10 years, 11 months ago

US court rejects death row inmates’ claims

Al Jazeera  

Oklahoma’s Supreme Court has ruled that two death row inmates are not entitled to know the source of the drugs that will be used to kill them. Wednesday’s decision paves the way for death row inmates Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner to receive a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Diane Clay, a spokeswoman for Oklahoma Attorney …

Oklahoma Court Delays 2 Executions Because Of Drug Shortage
11 years ago

Oklahoma Court Delays 2 Executions Because Of Drug Shortage

NPR  

Oklahoma Court Delays 2 Executions Because Of Drug Shortage An Oklahoma court put the execution of two men on hold on Tuesday because a five-judge appellate panel was not sure that the state could procure the drugs used to put convicts to death. USA Today reports: "The case is the latest in a growing controversy nationwide over the use of …

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