Update at 8:19 p.m. ET. Execution Fails: According to reporters tweeting from inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, the execution of Clayton D. Lockett has failed. Lockett ...

More unsettling details emerged in the state's flawed execution of Clayton Lockett. Graphic descriptions and frank assessments of what went on could be found in court documents filed by attorneys ...

Oklahoma inmate Clayton Lockett was tasered by guards, and cut his own arm, in the hours just before his ultimately botched execution at the hands of the state's Department of Corrections. Lockett ...

An Oklahoma death row inmate has been given a six-month stay of execution while officials investigate how the lethal injection of a different inmate, Clayton Lockett, went horribly wrong, the New York ...

More than 5,000 pages of interview transcripts and other records were released following a lawsuit against the state by the Tulsa World and Enterprise Editor Ziva Branstetter. Records released Friday, ...

The state finally has released a log of events from the botched April 29 execution of murderer Clayton Lockett.

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The planned execution of two death row inmates in Oklahoma failed on Tuesday night, after one of the condemned men experienced complications during the lethal injections, and died of a heart attack ...

Oklahoma's attorney general asked a court Thursday to delay putting an inmate to death in the wake of a botched execution at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary last month. Attorney General Scott Pruitt's ...

The “botched” execution of Clayton Lockett should shatter the illusion that lethal injection is neither cruel nor unusual. Clayton Lockett, left, and Charles Warner (AP Photo/Oklahoma Department of ...

McALESTER, Okla. -- A botched execution that used a new drug combination left an Oklahoma inmate writhing and clenching his teeth on the gurney Tuesday, leading prison officials to halt the ...