Oklahoma Execution: Inmate's 'Violent Struggle' Before Dying
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Clayton Lockett (Oklahoma Department of Corrections)
Officials had to lower blinds to prevent people in the viewing gallery from watching what was happening to Clayton Lockett, 38, in the death chamber.
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The failure of the execution will likely fuel a debate about the ability of states to administer lethal injection that meet the U.S. Constitution's requirement that they neither be cruel nor unusual punishment. Another Oklahoma inmate's execution, which was to take place hour's after Lockett's, has been postponed
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