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Associated PressJune 30, 2015

Oklahoma and Florida moved quickly to resume lethal injections after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of midazolam, a sedative that has been used in several problematic executions. Attorneys general in both states asked courts Monday to allow executions to proceed, just hours after the high court voted 5-4 in a case from Oklahoma […]

Guest AuthorMay 6, 2014

The moral issues surrounding death-penalty methodology that were portrayed so well in Stephen King’s “The Green Mile” were revisited by Americans last week after Oklahoma authorities miserably failed to execute a killer by injection. In what was termed a “botched” procedure, Clayton Lockett was pumped full of “experimental” drugs, a concoction of sedatives that failed […]

Martin DyckmanMay 4, 2014

Whether the murderer Clayton Lockett deserved to die is beside the point to nearly everyone who has read or heard about how he died in Oklahoma Tuesday. His execution attempt, evoking images of medieval torture, was botched so badly that it had to be interrupted shortly before a heart attack completed what needles and drugs […]

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(L-R) Bobby Powell and Leonard Serratore. Images via the candidates.

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