As for humaneness, Lockett’s execution was botched — “inhumane” — in part because Oklahoma had to use a new drug regimen because anti-death penalty advocates had successfully lobbied the ...

On Tuesday evening, Oklahoma was scheduled to execute two inmates who had been sentenced to death. After the first inmate, Clayton Lockett, suffered an exploded vein after the lethal cocktail ...

The next time liberals get indignant when we say they care more about criminals than the victims of crime, remember their hysterical weeping over Clayton Lockett. I refer, of course, to the vile ...

An official report released Thursday finds that Oklahoma prison staff attempting to execute inmate Clayton Lockett in April failed to realize that lethal drugs were not going directly into his ...

Clayton Lockett was convicted of shooting 19-year-old Stephanie Nieman with a sawed-off shotgun and watching as two accomplices buried her alive in 1999. AP ...

The story has been corrected. McALESTER -- The execution of convicted killer Clayton Lockett was botched Tuesday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary before he died of a massive heart attack.

The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety released this report of its independent review of the events leading up to and during the execution of Clayton Lockett. Related Article Officials at the ...

The botched execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma disturbed witnesses and stirred the nation: A convicted murderer, deemed unconscious, began twitching and convulsing on the gurney, only able ...

A four-time felon, Lockett was convicted of shooting 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman and watching as two accomplices buried her alive in 1999.

Document: A Department of Corrections log tracks Clayton Lockett's last days but contains a gap before his death. Document: Read an autopsy report of executed inmate Clayton Lockett by the Dallas ...

Oklahoma death row inmate Clayton Lockett (left) died Tuesday night following a botched execution attempt. The execution of Charles Warner (right) was also scheduled for that night, but it has ...

The family of convicted murderer Clayton Lockett is asking for an investigation into what went wrong during his execution Tuesday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.