Clayton Lockett was
convicted and sentenced to the death after he shot a 19 year old girl,
Stephanie Neiman, in 1999 after her and her friend walked home to him stealing
things from inside her house. Neiman was
abducted, along with her friend, where they were beaten and held captive. Lockett shot her with a sawed off shotgun and
then watched as his two friends buried her while she was bleeding out alive.
A medical technician
had a tough time finding a vein to insert lethal drugs on Lockett Tuesday evening,
when Lockett was scheduled to face the death penalty. Guards were forced to taze Lockett to find a
suitable vein to insert the drugs that would kill him.
Lockett had cut his arm
early Tuesday where he then went to the prisons hospital but was not required
to get any stitches. This wound was
found to be self inflicted by Lockett himself later on. Guards then watched him outside his cell until
5:20 AM when he was sentenced to the execution chamber. Once there, Lockett refused to be restrained
all throughout the day for several hours.
He also refused his final meal as well as his final statement Tuesday
when he was not cooperating with prison guards.
After finally being restrained, Lockett was searched for a vein to be used
to place the deadly drugs into.
Finally after a while,
the first of 3 drugs issued was released into Locketts groin, which made him
soon unconscious. Soon, several things
went wrong, after it was realized that the first drug had not been placed correctly
and fully into Locketts groin vein. His
heart began to slow and doctors realized that not enough drugs were given to kill
Lockett. Shortly after, Lockett suffered a heart attack and was then pronounced
dead on the scene. A separate death
penalty that was to be served soon after Locketts was postponed, and will wait
months or weeks to be carried out.
Locketts body was sent
to have an autopsy to see exactly what went wrong in this incident. The procedures of the staff are going to be
investigated as well to see if any staff member could have avoided the
situation from happening.
Winter,
Michael. "Defiant Lockett Tasered Hours before Execution." USA Today.
Gannett, 01 May 2014. Web. 01 May 2014.
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