Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Oct 26, 2022
On October 19th, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled against Oklahoma death-row prisoners who had argued that they should be allowed to have their attorney present throughout their execution so that counsel could…
Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Feb 14, 2022
Autopsy results for an Oklahoma death-row prisoner whose execution state officials claimed “was carried out … without complication” have confirmed eyewitness reports that John Grant likely suffered a torturous de…
Lethal Injection
,May 07, 2020
Oklahoma will not seek to carry out any executions while litigation continues in federal court on the state’s lethal-injection protocol, a U.S. federal district court judge has announced.At a May 5, 2020 hearing on the Okla…
Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Oct 29, 2021
Oklahoma’s legacy of botched executions has continued to grow, as media witnesses to the October 28, 2021 execution of John Grant (pictured) reported that Grant suffered repeated convulsions and vomited over a nea…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Upcoming Executions
,Jul 25, 2022
Former Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry (pictured) and former U.S. Magistrate Judge Andy Lester, who co-chaired the Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission in 2017, have called on st…
Arbitrariness
,New Voices
,Aug 08, 2017
Mark White (official portrait, pictured), a former governor and attorney general of Texas who became an outspoken critic of the death penalty, died on August 5 at the age of 77. Mr. White served as governor from 1983 to 1987, duri…
Executions Overview
,Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Apr 30, 2014
On April 29, Oklahoma inmate Clayton Lockett died of a heart attack approximately 40 minutes after the state began administering a new lethal injection protocol. Lockett received an injection of midazolam, …
Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,May 20, 2016
Following seven months of investigation into the causes of Oklahoma’s botched execution of Charles Warner using an unauthorized execution drug and its near‑e…
Lethal Injection
,State by State
,Mar 02, 2020
Less than two weeks after Oklahoma officials announced that the state would return to the same controversial three-drug execution protocol implicated in a series of botched executions in 2014 and 2015, the state’s death-row prison…
New Voices
,Botched Executions
,Lethal Injection
,Dec 15, 2014
Attorneys for several inmates in Oklahoma have asked a federal court to stay their executions and presented new accounts of the botched execution of Clayton Lockett (pictured) as evidence …
