Penalty. Joining us tonight, the stepmother of the mom who died on the table last night. A botched execution in oklahoma is renewing the legal debate over capital punishment. Breaking news from the state prison. Last nights botched execution of a death row inmate. 38yearold Clayton Lockett. Convicted for the murder of 19yearold stephanie nieman. The first of two scheduled executions did not go as planned. It was clear something was not right. Witnesses said that lockett tensed, crashed, clenched his teeth. He was struggling to get up, to talk. It took lockett 43 minutes to die. And to what is typically a process lasting 6 to 12 minutes a awe even when the Death Penalty its justified it must be carried out humanely. The state needs to be certain of its protocols and its procedures. They wanted to hurry up and get it done. With as little transparency as possible. Off awe using a new untested, three drug lethal injection. Untested cocktail of questionable drugs. This combination has never
Convicted for the murder of 19yearold Stephanie Nieman. The first of two scheduled executions did not go as planned. It was clear something was not right. Witnesses said that lockett tensed, crashed, clenched his teeth. He was struggling to get up, to talk. It took lockett 43 minutes to die. And to what is typically a process lasting 6 to 12 minutes a awe even when the Death Penalty its justified it must be carried out humanely. The state needs to be certain of its protocols and its procedures. They wanted to hurry up and get it done. With as little transparency as possible. Off awe using a new untested, three drug lethal injection. Untested cocktail of questionable drugs. This combination has never been tried in oklahoma. Furious legal battle in oklahoma over whether the state could do this. A national issue. Reignited debate over capital punishment. Renewing the legal debate over capital punishment. After an execution last night in oklahoma went disturbingly wrong. Good evening. Im i