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 ...

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Today, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit along with The Guardian and The Oklahoma Observer against Oklahoma prison officials. The lawsuit seeks to take the literal ...

At first Oklahoma prison officials suspected that a new drug combination caused Clayton Lockett to writhe in pain and clench his teeth during a botched execution. But a new autopsy report reveals that ...

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 ...

An Alabama inmate said prison staff poked him with needles for over an hour as they tried to find a vein during an aborted lethal injection last month. At one point, they left him hanging vertically ...

Tennessee’s third execution of 2025 came with controversies over method, and Gov. Lee denying clemency despite moral and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The botched execution of an Oklahoma inmate is certain to fire up the debate over what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment -- the phrase written into the U.S. Constitution and ...

A death row prisoner endured a horrifyingly botched execution that lasted nearly 45 minutes, leaving him writhing in pain and the chamber drenched in his blood. Clayton Lockett, aged 38, was sentenced ...

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 ...

Singapore on Wednesday denied claims by a Malaysian rights group that it used a brutal "coup de grace" to finish off botched executions and ordered Yahoo and other sites to correct reports of the ...

A court in the United States has ruled that the southern US state of Tennessee can move forward with the execution of a man with an implanted defibrillator, despite concerns that the device could ...