At first Oklahoma prison officials suspected that a new drug combination caused Clayton Lockett to writhe in pain and clench his teeth during a botched execution. But a new autopsy report reveals that ...

State officials will be conducting an autopsy of 38-year-old Clayton Lockett, the convicted felon who the state tried to execute with a combination of chemicals last night that the state had never ...

Oklahoma prison officials unveiled new execution procedures Tuesday allowing the state to keep using midazolam, a sedative used in flawed executions in other states. Other changes include more ...

And I'm Robert Siegel. A botched execution in Oklahoma last week has turned a spotlight on how states put inmates to death. In all 32 states that have the death penalty, lethal injection is the ...