Convicted murderer Clayton Lockett was scheduled to be executed at 6:00 p.m. tonight (April 29). While authorities were administering the lethal injection they discovered the line into Lockett's arm had blown. Prison officials halted the execution and at 7:06 p.m. Lockett suffered a massive heart attack and passed away.
Kimberly McCarthy, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the robbery and murder of Dorothy Booth in 1997, will be executed by the state of Texas Tuesday night. She will be the first woman since 2010 to be put to death in the United States.
Texas is one of the few states that still uses the death penalty. 482 Texas inmates have been put to death in the Lone Star State since 1982. Five more inmates are scheduled to be executed in Texas this year. Men aren't the only ones on death row, three woman have been executed in Texas since 1998. Proponents of the death penalty claim that 'having the death penalty deters crime', does it?. What a
I'm all for the death penalty but I'm for doing it humanely. I think lethal injection is the best way to go, but a Florida legislator wants to bring back electrocution and firing squad in his state. He feels that being put to death with lethal injection is too easy.