. >> clayton lockett was convicted of the murder of 18 year old stephanie kneeman. un, dug a grave and buried her alive. mr. lockett confessed to the police. he was convicted on 19 counts. he received about 2500 years, plus the death penalty. >> facing their own shortage from the european draw ban, oklahoma announced they would use midazolam on lockett. and in a rare doubleheader, inmate charles warner to be executed the same night. >> both of these crimes, charles warners as well as lockett's were horrific. warner raped and murdered a baby. there wasn't sympathy for either person. the question is whether the process was handled constitutionally and properly. >> susanna represented lockett and warner. >> a law had been passed in oklahoma in 2011 which made the source of drugs completely secret. but if my clients are not being rendered unconscious, that's cruel and unusual punishment. so i tried to show that this statute is unconstitutional, because it prohibits mr. lockett, mr. warner, anyone from finding out where those drugs came from. in factshe discovered oklahom

to kill with the same drugs after clayton lockett. they were going to do two in one night. a lot of attention for something like that. "the attorney general's office being an elective office was under a lot of pressure. the staff over there was under a lot of pressure to say get it done, you know? and so, yeah, yeah, i think it was a joint decision but i've got to say there was a push to make the decision, get it done, hurry up about it. get it done, hurry up about it. that was from the attorney general's office because it's an elective office. an ambition guy in that office and they wanted to get those guys killed, this this over with. who cares what the drug is? who cares if we've never used that drug before, i looked something up on the wikileaks or whatever. you got yourself a smartphone? we'll use something we have never tried before, who cares, get it done. and that is how scott pruitt apparently ended up making the decision about a brand new experiment method that oklahoma was going to try out on its prisoners that led to clayt

so they started to make preparations to bring clayton lockett back. they tried to revive him after spending time to kill him but by then he was groaning and convulsing and then he was in and out of consciousness. after 43 minutes, including them trying to call it off, after 43 minutes he died of a heart attack. that was april, 2014. just botched. the idea basically whether you think about the death penalty, this is not the way it's supposed to go. you're supposed to be rendered unconscious. oklahoma blew it. and the drug they were using to try to kill him is a drug that oklahoma had never tried to use before and we learned the execution team, the people sticking him with the needles, the medical people and corrections people, people on the team trying to carry out this execution, they didn't know anything about this new drug. they'd never used it before. they didn't know anything about how it was supposed to work or might be different. they'd never trained on it, been briefed on it and that clayton lockett execution ended up making national headlines

s name was clayton lockett, they were trying to kill him but they could not figure it out, they couldn'tget it done they made more than a dozen tries inserting iv lines into him, more than a dozen tries. including into his arms, into his legs, into his groin and the whole time he was supposed to be knocked out but he was not unconscious. he was awake. he was writhing, arching his back, talking about how much everything hurt. it went on for ten minutes, then 20 minutes, then 30 minutes and then 40 minutes at one point he ended up try to help them kill him. he tried to help them get the needles into himself because they made these more than a dozen tries and nothing was working to knock him out. it went on for so long prison officials pulled the curtain so can'ts couldn't see and they decided they couldn't go ahead with it. not that they felt bad but they literally believed they could not do it. they had messed up their chance. it wasn't working.