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Lockett had been declared unconscious 10 minutes after the first of three drugs in the state's new lethal injection combination was administered Tuesday evening. Three minutes later, he began breathing heavily, writhing, clenching his teeth and straining to lift his head off the pillow. Officials later blamed a ruptured vein for the problems with the execution, which are likely to fuel more debate about the ability of states to administer lethal injections that meet the U.S. Constitution's requirement they be neither cruel nor unusual punishment.

Missouri and Texas, like Oklahoma, have both refused to reveal their sources and both of those states have carried out executions with their new supplies.

Leisher wrote:Why is a bullet to the back of the head when they're not expecting it less humane than a needle?

Leisher wrote:Why is a bullet to the back of the head when they're not expecting it less humane than a needle?

Tell them they're being execute in a week, and then that night while they're sleeping, sneak in a one shot them.

No pain. Instant death. No awareness of their own fate about to occur.

Fallin said in a statement Thursday that “it became apparent” during discussions with prison officials last week that the Department of Corrections used potassium acetate — not potassium chloride, as required under the state’s protocol — to execute Charles Frederick Warner in January