but at 6:36, lockett began writhing. minutes later, it started getting particularly ugly. >> reporter graham lee brewer of the oklahoman was one of the official witnesses. >> he began kicking his feet, lifting his head and his chest off the gurney, grimacing, clenching his teeth, and a couple of months, he actually mumbled. >> at 6:39, a prison official said to witnesses, we are going to lower the blinds temporarily, and they did. it was clear at that point, to officials in attendance, that something was very, very wrong. >> after conferring with the ward, and unknown how much drugs that went into him, it was my decision at that time to stop the execution. >> according to an ap reporter in attendance, prison officials said they would try to get lockett to the hospital to resuscitate him. the man they were just moments ago trying to kill, well, they did not succeed in resuscitating him. at 7:06.clayton lockett was declared dead. he died of a heart attack, 43 minutes after the drug was administered, a gruesome period of wh

but at 6:36, lockett began writhing.

one to paralyze lockett and the other to stop his heart. suddenly, lockett twiched. reporter justin doughertys was a witness. >> his upper body lifted off the bed. his head lifted off the pillow, not at the same time. it kind of went in a pattern where his upper body would lift up, his head would lift up and his right foot would move as well. >> reporter: lockett continued to move for three minutes. then at 6:37, prison officials closed the curtains separating the death chamber and the witness room. corrections chief robert patton said locket's veins researching the i.v. drugs had failed. >> there was some concern at that time the drugs were not having an effect so the doctor observed the line and determined that the line had blown. >> reporter: patton stopped the execution. but a half hour later, lockett died of an apparent heart attack. now, this is the second botched execution in three and a half months an ohio inmate repeatedly gasped and struggled for 25 minutes before dying in january. scott, executions in ohio are also on hold. >> pelley: bob, thanks very much

lockett's body begins convulsing, shaking. 6:49. the execution is halted. 43 minutes after he was administered the first of three drugs. clayton lockett is pronounced dead from an apparent massive heart attack t at the white house today, press secretary jay carney weighed in on this execution. >> the crimes are indisputably horrific and heinous. but of it is also the case we have a fundamental standard in this country that even when the death penalty is justified it must be carried out humanely. and i think -- everyone would recognize that -- that -- this case fell short of that standard. >> in oklahoma, mean while, governor mary fallin reaffirmed her support of the death penalty but also called for a type of review of the state's procedures here. >> he had his day in court. i believe the legal process worked. i believe the death penalty is inappropriate. an appropriate response and punishment to those who commit heinous crimes against their fellow men and women. however, i also believe the state need to beep certain of its protocol

lockett decide was unimportant. he was convicted of shooting a 19-year-old girl, and she was buried alive. the object was to kill clayton d. lockett, that was achieved. >> we have a fundamental standard that when the death penalty is justified. it must be carried out humany? >> the argument in the united states was solely about the morality of the death penalty. now there's the argument whether state authorities have the proper means to carry out the league at right to kill without torturing prisoners to death. >> 17-year-old student and long island new york accomplished a rare feat. she was accepted into 81 of the eight u.s. ivy league universities. he is studying at yale to become a doctor. his talents were academic. he's a violinist and shot-put and athlete. >> at the end of the day, you're the one going to college, or doing what you do in life. and you have your passions. things that you love doing most happens to be learning, education, if you develop that self-driven force to push yourself as far as you can go

at 5:22 lockett finally laid down on the execution table. an hour later a phlebotomist struggled to find a vein. at 6:23 the execution began where the attending doctor reported a vein collapsed at 6:44. at 6:56 the execution was officially halted but lockett died ten minutes later at 7:06. the report does not confirm whether lockett died from a massive heart attack as first reported. >> we look forward to a further review and a rewrite for the protocols in the state of oklahoma for carrying out executions. >> reporter: the boc director refused to answer any questions about the execution. >> i'll be glad to answer questions about anything else other than executions. >> that was jesse wells reporting there. it should be noted the state's time line of events doesn't provide details to back up witnesses claims that lodge ket was writhing in pain and appeared to be conscious before prison officials lowered the blinds in the chamber. >>> stay with us here on "cnn newsroom." we'll have more for you after this short break. >>> we want to update you

lockett was doing. this was not supposed to happen. >> woodruff: roy englert, what injure sense of it? we know there's a debate in the state of oklahoma before this happened. the court's ruling one way, the governor pushing back and a lot had to do with the fact that it was a combination of drugs that hadn't been tried before. >> there will have to be an investigation into what went wrong. the preliminary report was that they had difficulty finding a vain or -- vein or a vein exploded. it's a known danger with the first drug. that having been said mr. lockett lived 15 years after killing his victim and we're worrying about 40 minutes versus 4 minutes for the execution. he it needs to be kept in -- >> woodruff: are you definedding what happened here? >> of course not. the governor did the right thing but putting off the 8:00 p.m. execution and ordering an investigation. >> woodruff: dennis weimann, is there a way to ensure this -- deborah denno, is there a way to ensure this never happens? >> there shoul

his execution was delayed after the botched execution of lockett. you can see all of the information, including the botched execution and our show "the execution tapes." now!is democracy with two young women who reported that they were raped to their university administration. you may be surprised to find out what happened to each of them next. one is a student at brown and the other is a student at tufts. stay with us. [music break] ♪ >> "melange" - poddington bear the issue of sexual assault on college campuses has been in the spotlight this week. on tuesday, a white house task force headed by vice president joe biden released a report urging colleges to take action by conducting surveys, promoting bystander intervention and improving their disciplinary systems. the government launched a new informational website, notalone.gov, and a public service announcement, featuring president obama and vice president biden alongside famous actors. >> we have a big problem. we need your help. >> is happening on college campuses, at bars. >> is happening to he

local time, clayton lockett lay strapped to a gurney. his sedation was finally flowing into his body after officials spent nearly an hour searching for a vein for the i.v. and soon it was clear something was really wrong. witnesses, including a guest today noticed his blinking, pursing his lips. a physician checked, he wasn't yet unconscious when he should have been by then. shortly after the second and third drugs, the fatal ones started to flow into him at 6:33 p.m. at 6:36 p.m., lockett began to twitch, shake and mumble. one of his attorneys later described what he saw. >> this was a horrible thing to witness. one of the things he said was something's wrong. he said, man, at one point. he kept trying to raise up. >> a few minutes later, the oklahoma director of corrections attempted to halt the execution. at 6:42 p.m. the shades were drawn, blocking the witnesses from seeing any more. here's what witnesses told reporters they did see. >> he was struggling to talk, but those were the words we got out, man, i'm not, and something's wron

i'm not clayton lockett. i can't answer that. can, and he's dead now. >> this doctor testified on behalf of inmate david mcguire earlier this year before his execution. there's at least a substantial risk an inmate such as mcguire will be aware of and experience air hunger as the drugs take effect. thank you so much for being here. i want to start by asking you what is air hunger? >> air hunger is a simple inability to take a breath. imagine when you get hit in the stomach and you can't catch your breath. that's air hunger. but for someone like mcguire or say a severe asthmatic, they don't know that will go away, so it brings around a terror. one of the worst terrors that we know that can happen to man. >> you testified prior to the mcguire execution as part of the attempt to stay it. afterwards the state of ohio actually changed the dosage. in your view is that an admission that there was something wrong with the drug cocktail that was used? >> it is hard for me to say. certainly it is an admission that what they had initially u

witnesses say lockett was still conscious seven minutes after the first injection. at 16 minutes, he seemingly tried to get up and talk. it was then the prison officials closed the blinds, shutting out the media gathered to witness. >> we didn't know what was happening on the other side of the blind. we didn't know if he was still dying or they were still pumping drugs in him. >> 43 minutes after the first injection, lockett died. >> inmate suffered what appears to be a massive heart attack and passed away. >> that botched execution prompted a stay on another execution scheduled for later that day. and quickly sparked controversy across the nation. here with me now dr. joel zivet, an anesthesiologist at emery university, a colleague of mine. he has studied and written about the death penalty and how it is carried out. welcome to the program. >> thanks for having me. >> this is one of the philosophically sticky areas. i am curious, you have written you don't think this can be done humanely and that it's a propagation of fiction to suggest that legal injections are a

quite a bit of a body shot or because according to reports the three drugs used to kill lockett are not primarily intended as execution drugs and come with a host of warnings about suppressing the respiratory system and causing heart trouble in recent years drug makers mostly in europe have stopped selling their medications to u.s. prisons because they don't want their products being used to kill individuals and as a result states have scrambled to find new suppliers and chemical recipes for executions in many cases officials refuse to disclose what struggles are being used and where they're coming from when the states are refusing to provide this kind of information the tragic results that we saw in oklahoma are what we're going to get in january and ohio inmate took twenty five minutes to die by in. jackson gasping repeatedly as he laid on the stretcher in oklahoma another prisoner complained of feeling his whole body burning after being lethally injected the injections by the way are being administered by prison officials not medical professionals and medical community doctors in par

to die within six minutes after receiving a lethal injection but that wasn't the case for clayton lockett he took forty three minutes to die gasping and rather than in pain before his heart finally gave out when a portnoy has been looking into these untested drugs the now being used to kill the condemn it. america is among the top five nations that lead the world in executions but a recent lethal injection gone bad the typical execution should take between about six and twelve minutes forty three minutes a van burst lines were closed because something was going so wrong is casting a spotlight on the inhumane methods behind capital punishment in the us the american public and the world is getting a close up and personal look at the death penalty as it really operates and what we're seeing is ugly on tuesday oklahoma inmate clean lockett died a slow and painful death after his lethal injection was administered witnesses say he was with the ring for forty three minutes telling doctors something's wrong before eventually suffering a massive heart attack lockett began rising from the gurney it

lockett was left conscious and twitching. he died of a heart attack. was convicted of raping and shooting a 19-year-old woman and watching as his friends buried her alive. >>> the british actor in who framed roger rabbit died last night at 71. >> i do. >> you don't. when i say i do, that means i do. >> bob hoskins retired two years ago. he had a gravelly voice. his family issued a statement saying he died peacefully in the hospital from pneumonia. >>> growth spurts, parts of the bay area that are leading the state in population growth. >>> late starts, long breaks and short days. why your toll at the golden gate brim are going up why paint earps are sitting down on the job. >>> a new ingredient in the water. can you taste a difference. >>> back here after a break. we're looking for record highs. i'll have all the specifics. . >> waste to golden gate bridge. two investigates caught bridge painters not working like they are supposed to and you are paying for it. live at the san francisco side of the bridge with what our cameras caught. >> the commuters g

last night thirty eight year old clayton lockett riddled in pain from the state's new lethal injection cocktail dying forty three minutes later of heart attack like it was first administered. they said a sedative and was declared unconscious ten minutes later doctors reportedly began to administer the second and third drugs to stop the breathing and the heart when lockett began breathing heavily clenching his teeth and straining to lift his head the prison then close the blinds on the window to prevent witnesses from seeing what was happening in the death chamber authorities say they tried to halt the execution when things were visibly going wrong but lockett died of a heart attack a short time later officials blame erupt vein but the state is awaiting results from an autopsy a second execution was scheduled last night for another oklahoma and mate but due to the first botched execution governor mary fallen issued a stay governor fallen tweeted i've postponed tonight's second execution and ordered an evaluation of oklahoma's lethal dosage protocol the state has refused to release detai

. >> reporter: shortly after the state started pumping drugs in the arms of this man, lockett, something went wrong. reporter graham lee brewer of the oklahoman was one of the key witnesses. >> he began kicking his feet, lifting his head and chest off the gurney and he must believed. >> reporter: it took 43 minutes for him to be pronounced dead. the governor postponed another execution and today ordered an independent review. >> the state needs to be certain of its protocols and its procedures for executions and that they work. >> reporter: oklahoma had never before used the three chemicals in the combination it administered to lockett. all 32 death penalty states are struggling to find lethal ingestion drugs after suppliers said they no longer wanted any part in capital punishment. some are compounding pharmacies but refusing to disclose the sources. last week one justice on oklahoma supreme court said inmates are no more entitled to know the source of the lethal drugs than whether it was a nylon or cotton rope if they were being hanged. lawyers for charles warner whose execution was al

matt trotter witnessed lockett's execution. it was the first time he had been a witness.the other hand, bloomberg had witnessed several executions. matt, let me start with you. i know it can't be comfortable coming on television talking about this, but tell me what you did witness on tuesday. >> well, it was, you know, as you said, my first execution, and i didn't approach it lightly. to me it was that extension of my duty as a reporter. it's a very extreme extension of it, but this is something i felt obligated to do. but that still doesn't quite prepare you for actually being there and watching it, especially when you see it starting to go wrong, and you hit that point during the execution where you and the rest of the media witnesses in the room are able to exchange quick glan glances with the people next to you and just go, oh, wow, this is really going wrong. so when it got to that point, i think the journalistic instinct for most of us, definitely for me, just kind of kicked in, and it was a lot of looking up at the clock, looking down at locke lockett, looking at t

clayton lockett wasn't going to die as planned.tate officials say he was not unconscious during the execution and only later died of a heart attack. oklahoma had never before used the three-chemical cocktail that lockett received. the execution followed the fight with the state supreme court to make sure it went through. and the governor has ordered a review amid suggestions of cruel of unusual punishment. >> i believe the legal process worked. i believe the death penalty is an appropriate response and punishment to those who commit heinous crimes against their fellow men and women. however, i also believe the state needs to be certain of its protocols and its procedures for executions and that they work. >> we have a fundamental standard in this country that even when the death penalty is justified, it must be carried out humanely. and i think everyone would recognize that this case fell short of that standard. >> so this case has widespread implications as other states face the same problem. shortages of the drugs traditionally u

lockette should be given the same mercy that he gave his victim stephanie and that would be none. 43inutes be damned. >>> and now for the results of the poll. we asked you should the president be impeached of the administration's handling of the benghazi attacks. barbara says, of course, the whole crew in the white house should go to jail. robert says yes, i believe the president and his crew should all be eric snowden's roommates in russia. and they diane, he should resign like richard nixon or be impeached. nobody do it in watergate. that's it for us tonight. thanks for joining us. tonight on huckabee, denoil. >> the documents released are explicitly about the broader areas separate from the attack on benghazi. >> dismissal. >> benghazi, benghazi, benghazi, why aren't we talking about something else. >> conspiracy theorys by the republicans and this one turned out to be bogus. >> where is the truth? >> we knew it was a hostile action. >> the house begins a new investigation in the benghazi attacks. >> as clipper's owner donald sterling fi

the needle was inserted into clayton lockett's thigh, after no other suitable vein could be found. some of the drugs never made it into his system because a collapsed vein was not noticed for 21 minutes. it was also revealed lockett had been hit with a stun gun earlier in the day. >>> major universities are under federal investigation for the way they handled sex abuse complaints by their students. the list of 55 schools includes high profile campuses, including ohio state, harvard, princeton and u.c. berkeley. administrators for the most part were unwilling to talk about specific incidents. but said they had been working to be more responsive to student complaints. >>> fire crews in southern california are mopping up what's left of a wind-driven wildfire that scorched more than 1,600 acres. 700 firefighters battled the blaze east of los angeles in blistering heat, with winds hitting 70 miles per hour. the fire is now more than 50% contained. and evacuation orders were lifted for about 1,000 homes. >>> and the ultra dry conditions in california also means water rationing in santa c

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lockette should be given the same mercy that he gave his victim stephanie and that would be none. 43ed. >>> and now for the results of the poll. we asked you should the president be impeached of the administration's handling of the benghazi attacks. barbara says, of course, the whole crew in the white house should go to jail. robert says yes, i believe the president and his crew should all be eric snowden's roommates in russia. and they diane, he should resign like richard nixon or be impeached. nobody do it in watergate. that's it for us tonight. thanks for joining us. stick with innovation. stick with power. stick with technology. get the flexcare platinum from philips sonicare and save now. philips sonicare nowchoose one option fromith red lothe wood-fire grill,trios! one signature shrimp dish, and a pasta. all on one plate. three delicious choices. all for $15.99 for a limited time only! come sea food differently today! the numbers are impressive. over 400,000 new private sector jobs... making new york state number two in the nation in new private sector job creation... with 10 r

charles warner was scheduled for execution on the same night as clinton lockett. lockett's vein collapsed during his lethal injection prompting prison officials to halt the execution. he later died of a heart attack. >>> and there are plenty of questions this morning about a new recording of disgraced l.a. clippers owner, donald sterling. the recorded phone call with an unnamed friend of sterling's was leaked to radar online. no word who leaked it, though. one thing that is clear, is that sterling wants to defend himself against the charge that resulted in a lifetime ban from the nba. >> you think i have anything in the world but love for everybody? you don't think that. you know i'm not a racist. how can you be in this business and be a racist? do you think i tell the coach to get white players? or to get the best player he can get? >> sterling also makes it clear he's not giving up the clippers without a fight. saying no one can be forced to sell property in america. he also says he respects magic johnson, whose picture with v. stiviano was part of what started

that's how clayton lockett's attorneys class fie the attempts to execute him tuesday night.the execution which involved a use of a new three-drug combination said it was gruesome. >> he was on the gurney still writhing, grimacing, making noises. >> clayton lockett was tortured to death. >> reporter: critics believe the execution will erode the country's support for capital punishment. the country is skittish because over 140 death row inmates have been exonerated since 1973. 18 states abolished the practice. six since 2007. while support for the death penalty has fallen from 82% in 2003 to 60%, a significant majority of american believe in it. >> how else do we deal with the cop killers, baby killers, mass murders and serial killers. >> reporter: mark klaas's daughter was raped and murdered years ago. he has little sympathy. >> this is not about clayton lockett. this is not about his victimization. this is about a heinous and unforgiving criminal act that he committed against an innocent young woman. >> reporter: oklahoma turned to a new lethal cocktail after european pharma

but lockett dying of a heart attack a short time later. officials blame enraptured made that state is awaiting results from an autopsy. ellis said the execution was scheduled last night for another oklahoma in may. that's due to the first botched execution governor mary fallen. the issue this day governor palin treated. i posted tonight. the second execution postpone rather slight second execution in order and annihilation of oklahoma's lethal dosage protocol. the state has released has refused either to release details on the drugs being used and where they were obtained markov was accused of shooting a nineteen year old woman and wanted to let us bury her alive. police officers are supposed to serve and protect but one officer on the beach in florida. apparently much to skip class today that was taught a police academy thirty seven year old officer kevin curtis was suspended from pembroke pines police department this week after evidence from crime to repeal his own criminal act police say in this surveillance video you can see optus or b

the same department the of corrections that carried out lockett's execution. and that's not all.he oklahoman reports that thompson was at the lethal injection in an official capacity. the man tasked with evaluating the state's execution protocol because of a botched execution that may have resulted directly from fallin's disregarding the supreme court when it ordered her to temporarily halt lockett's and another inmate's executions, that man not only reports to her, works for her, used to work for the very same department he's investigating, and is a material witness to the very execution that prompted this entire thing. so, mary fallin, we see what you're doing there in oklahoma. you are not fooling anyone. this entire mess deserves a genuine independent, thorough investigation. i always say be the man with the plan but with less energy, moodiness, and a low sex drive, i had to do something. i saw my doctor. a blood test showed it was low testosterone, not age. we talked about axiron the only underarm low t treatment that can restore t levels to normal in about two weeks in most

they report that lockett subsequently died of a heart attack.d to be executed, officials put that on hold. i spoke exclusively to dean sanderford, who witnessed the execution. and madeleine cohen, attorney for the second man who was scheduled to die. mr. sanderford and ms. cohen, thank you for being here. i think our viewers would be interested to learn why your respective clients were on death row. am i correct that your client was convicted of binding an 18-year-old with duct tape, making her watch and dig her own grave? then shot her and buried her alive? is that a fair accounting? >> that is fair. she was 19. >> 19 years old. and ms. cohen, your client, charles warner was convicted of the rape and murder of his girlfriend's 11 month-old daughter? >> yes, that is accurate? >> mr. sanderford, what did you witness? >> when they pulled the curtain up, mr. locket was already stretched out on the gurney, the iv line was attached. he was covered with a sheet so we couldn't see them. when the execution began, it went probably how it was intended to.

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lockett writhed and struggled. no more is it more popular than texas, but there there are growing doubt. chris brewery with a closer look at the crime and punishment. >> reporter: this scope outside the old prison in downtown huntsville has become a familiar ritual. far too familiar for the small group gathering to protest an impending execution. this evening the life of another texas prisoner is scheduled to end. >> there's a cross. it seems the state of texas thinks that is blessed by god. executing people is blessed by god. >> reporter: reverend has been coming to executions in huntsville for two years, on this day he and a friend drove more than four hours to bear witness. >> it's a long drive, almost four hours. a lot of time to pray, and today i remember praying over and over again, that god might intervene. >> reporter: robert campbell was convicted in 1991's abduction and murder of a houston woman, shooting her in a field and leaving her to die. the death row here is busy - 515 executions since 1976 when ca

lockett. >> lethal infections failed, clayton d. lockett cried out in pain and died of a heart attack. on n.b.c.'s "meet the press", perry refused to say it was inhumane. >> i'm confident the way the executions are tape care of in the state of texas are appropriate. >> and humane. >> and humane. >> was this inhumane? >> i don't know whether it was inhumane, but it was botched. >> the question is whether it violates the constitution, which says - perry was not asked but expressed concern about the eighth amendment or cruel or unusual punishments can be rare. mike christian in oklahoma defended the penalty saying: def deff deffed. >> cruel and unusual. >>> in the 2014 midterm elections women voters will be a key. mark udall in his fight decided to get the attention of women voters. his opponent cory gardner faced this udal attack add out of the gate. >> it comes down to respect for women and our live. congressman cory gardner's history opposing abortion laws is a concern. >> gardner calls the ad misleading and accuses udall of going n

it recalled the gruesome death of the 19-year-old woman that lockett was convicted of killing.as very bad, too. he struggled in obvious pain for 43 minutes before finally dieing of an apparent heart attack. for now, some states still have the legal option to put their convicted criminals to beth including using the three-drug cocktail. is it the right thing to do? joining me now mark white, the governor of texas from 1983 to 1987, during that time overseeing the executions of 19 minutes. here is what he said last week in an essay for politico magazine. i believe our criminal justice system delivered fair sentences and could humanely carry out the ultimate punishment. today i'm not so sure. governor white, thank you for being here, first of all. >> sure. >> why are you now not so sure and are you not sure about the death penalty itself or just about the means? >> well, i think it's both. i think you have to be certain, first of all, that you have a person that committed the crime. we've seen evidence, strong evidence that we've executed innocent people in this country. nothing c