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| Inmate dies from drugs in Oklahoma's troubled execution |
| By thonline.com |
| Published: 08/29/2014 |
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OKLAHOMA CITY -- An Oklahoma death row inmate who writhed, moaned and clenched his teeth before he was pronounced dead about 43 minutes after his execution began succumbed to the lethal drugs he was administered, not a heart attack, after the state's prisons chief halted efforts to kill him, an autopsy report released Thursday says. Department of Corrections Director Robert Patton had said inmate Clayton Lockett died from a heart attack about 10 minutes after he ordered the execution stopped. It hadn't been clear whether all three execution drugs administered to Lockett had made it into his system, but the independent autopsy performed for the state determined they did. Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences at Dallas, which performed the autopsy, concluded that the cause of death was "judicial execution by lethal injection." But the report does not answer why the execution took so long and why Lockett writhed on the gurney. Read More. |
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