Death Row Inmate Dies Of Heart Attack During Execution

Clayton Locket died of heart attack after the planned execution failed to work as expected forcing the execution to be stopped

Locket was due to be executed using an injection of three drugs.

Locket who is aged 38 experienced a vein failure which prevented the drugs from being fully effective.

The execution was halted after 20 minutes.

Charles Warner was next in line to be executed but due to the unfortunate events, the procedure was postponed for 14 days.

Jerry Massie, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections confirmed to the media that Lockett had died of a heart attack following the lethal injection.

"We believe that a vein was blown and the drugs weren't working as they were designed to. The director ordered a halt to the execution," Massie said.

Prison officials pulled a curtain across the view of witnesses when it became apparent that something had gone wrong.

"This was botched, and it was difficult to watch," said David Autry, one of Lockett's lawyers.

Lockett was sentenced to death for the 1999 shooting of a 19-year-old woman.

Warner was convicted for the 1997 murder and rape of an 11-month-old girl.

 

By Beth Nyaga

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