"DOC has yet to release logs from botched April execution; state waiting on autopsy," is by Cary Aspinwall and Ziva Branstetter of the Tulsa World.
Logs from the final hours before Clayton Lockett’s botched execution still haven’t been released by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, more than three months after initially requested by the Tulsa World.
Officials at DOC have declined to say when the logs or other records requested by the World will be released. The agency keeps detailed logs during every execution, documenting the timeline of what occurred during the days leading up to the execution and on the day of the execution.
Oklahoma’s execution protocol states that beginning seven days before an execution, a log will be maintained to “provide a detailed chronological history of every aspect of the execution proceedings.”
The World requested the logs and other records following Lockett’s April 29 execution, which took 43 minutes and was halted shortly before he died. Key events surrounding the execution were omitted from an earlier timeline released by DOC on May 1, including the medical qualifications of personnel who inserted the inmate’s IV and what happened between the time when the execution was halted and Lockett died.
Earlier coverage of Oklahoma's botch execution of Clayton Lockett begins at the link. Related posts are in the botch category index.
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