Oklahoma poised to build own execution device

McALESTER, Okla. — For nearly 25 years, Oklahoma had a three-step process for executing killers.

If you were one of the 112 death row inmates put to death during that time frame, the process played out like this:

The first drug would numb you. Then the second drug would kick in and paralyze you to keep you from moving around on the death chamber table. The final drug would be administered to stop your heart.

Bing. Bang. Boom. Good night.

So imagine everyone’s surprise when, about 10 minutes after he was deemed unconscious and as the heart-stopping potassium chloride was supposedly being administered, Clayton Lockett, the 111th person to be put to death in Oklahoma by lethal injection, opened his eyes.

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