Clayton Lockett

• Oklahoma prisons director: Agency to get new equipment for executions

  Oklahoma prisons director Robert Patton says the agency will renovate the state's death chamber and get new equipment for executions following the botched execution of Clayton Lockett.

  Crime

  Sep 8, 2014
  
• Oklahoma report: More training for executioners needed after flawed IV line placement

  Investigators are blaming Clayton Lockett's botched execution on poor placement of intravenous lines and a warden's decision that modesty was more important than monitoring Lockett for signs of trouble.

  Science

  Sep 4, 2014
  
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• Should we worry about ‘botched’ executions?

  Witnesses say convicted killer Joseph Wood gasped hundreds of times after the lethal injection was administered in Arizona Wednesday.

  Crime

  Jul 24, 2014
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• Georgia, Missouri carry out 1st executions since botched lethal injection

  A Georgia inmate convicted of rape and murder has become the first person to be executed in the U.S. since the botched lethal injection of a prisoner in Oklahoma in April.

  Crime

  Jun 18, 2014
• Lawsuit: Botched Oklahoma execution should delay Texas case

  Attorneys for a Texas death row inmate have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit seeking to delay his execution following a bungled execution in Oklahoma.

  Crime

  May 6, 2014
• U.S. inmate dies of heart attack after botched execution

  An inmate whose execution was halted Tuesday because the delivery of a new drug combination was botched died of a heart attack.

  World

  Apr 30, 2014