Abstract
Shortly before 6:30 pm on April 29, an Oklahoma prison official injected a sedative into an intravenous line in the groin of Clayton D. Lockett. Lockett was to be executed for shooting 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman 15 years ago, then watching as two accomplices buried her alive. After the sedative injection, Lockett was declared unconscious, and he started receiving two more compounds—one to stop his breathing and the other to stop his heart. At 6:36 PM he started writhing, grimacing, and lifting his head and shoulders off the gurney to which he was strapped, according to eyewitness accounts. At 6:50 PM, prison officials stopped the execution. Shortly thereafter, Lockett died of an apparent heart attack. This and other recent botched executions have helped thrust lethal injections into the spotlight. The latest in a line of efforts to bring convicted felons to a quick death—the U.S. since 1900 has also used hanging, ...
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