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| Documents in lawsuit over Oklahoma executions reveals new details of bungled lethal injection |
| By westmanjournal.com- Sean Murphy |
| Published: 12/18/2014 |
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OKLAHOMA CITY - A federal hearing begins Wednesday over Oklahoma's attempts to resume executions nine months after a bungled lethal injection in which a death row inmate writhed on the gurney, mumbled and lifted his head after receiving a new drug combination. Attorneys for 21 Oklahoma death row inmates argue the state's new lethal injection drug combinations and doses amount to human experiments that violate their constitutional protection from cruel and unusual punishment. Attorneys for the state maintain the April 29 execution of Clayton Lockett was an anomaly and that new protocols and training will prevent problems as they move forward with plans for a January execution. An 80-page court filing in the case included never-before-released witness accounts from a Department of Public Safety investigation into Lockett's execution. Prison officials lowered the blinds after a doctor noticed problems with Lockett's IV, preventing some witnesses from seeing what happened. Lockett died 43 minutes after the procedure began. Read More. |
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