
IPFS News Link • Death Penalty
Oklahoma Execution Botched, Prisoner Dies Of Heart Attack After Writhing In Pain
• Jonathan TurleyFor death penalty advocates, Oklahoma was featuring a type of macabre
double header tonight: two executions to be held within hours of each
other. That objective however failed in a most disturbing possible way
after the first execution of Clayton Lockett left him in obvious agony
for over 25 minutes. He eventually died from a heart attack and the
second execution was postponed....