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Drugs Injected into Prisoner’s Groin During Botched Oklahoma Execution

HeadlineMay 02, 2014

Oklahoma has released new details on the botched lethal injection of prisoner Clayton Lockett. An account provided by corrections chief Robert Patton shows the execution drugs were administered by a catheter inserted in Lockett’s groin after medical personnel spent nearly an hour searching for another vein. More than 20 minutes after the injection began, a doctor noticed the blood vein had collapsed and the drugs had leaked. The doctor called off the execution, and Lockett was pronounced dead 10 minutes later, 43 minutes after the injection began. The account also shows Lockett was Tasered earlier on the day of his execution for refusing to be restrained and taken for x-rays. Click here to see more Democracy Now! coverage of “Execution Chaos.”

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