Execution of Clayton Lockett

And you know, Infiltration is not unusual.

That's the Clayton Lockett botched execution.

That's Angel Diaz botched execution.

It's just that in those cases, the person died.

But the protocol didn't tell them what to do.

if she was still alive.

And here's the thing, you know, trying to put yourself in the room, I can remember Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma, you know, and the warden talking and saying, it doesn't tell us what to do if something goes south.

And in most of these protocols, even like the, and each state has their own.

For at least 10 minutes, he gasped and choked.

That April, Oklahoma used midazolam for the first time on Clayton Lockett with a sheet over the needle in his groin.

The state's Department of Public Safety found afterward that no one had been watching the IV.

In July at Florence, Michael Kiefer of the Arizona Republic counted about 640 gasps from Joseph Wood.

Amber McGuire said of the morning that she watched, "'I can't think of any other way to describe it than torture.'" Chapter 32.

Clayton Lockett and the Sheet Over the Needle.

McAllister, Oklahoma.

April 29, 2014.

At 6.23 on the evening of April 29, 2014, the full dose of midazolam went into Clayton Lockett through a line in his right groin at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAllister, and a sheet lay over the needle.

Oklahoma had never used midazolam before.

The state wouldn't say where the drugs came from, and the fight over that had gone so far that the Oklahoma Supreme Court stayed the execution on April 21.

Ohio ran out of pentobarbital, and in January 2014, it executed Dennis McGuire with midazolam and hydromorphone, a combination no one in the country had used to kill a prisoner.

Oklahoma tried midazolam on Clayton Lockett in April, and in July, Arizona gave Joseph Wood the Ohio pear.

From the time the drugs started, McGuire took about 25 minutes to die, Lockett took 43, and Wood took an hour and 57.

Chapter 23.

Raymond Landry and the Blowout.

Oklahoma's a great example of this.

2014, Clayton Lockett, he didn't survive the execution exactly.

It was horribly botched.

Oklahoma was back in the execution business, I don't know, six months later.

A little over a week ago, the state of Tennessee failed to execute death row inmate Christa Pike using one of the same methods of execution approved for use in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma paused executions once before in 2015 following a similarly botched execution attempt of Clayton Lockett.

About two dozen people are on death row in Oklahoma, and the next execution is scheduled for November.

In Oklahoma City, I'm Sierra Pfeiffer.

All right.

Coming in at number three, Clayton Lockett.

Lethal Injection.

Clayton.