Obama to have attorney general look into botched Oklahoma execution

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Obama to have attorney general look into botched Oklahoma execution

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-attorney-general-look-botched-execution-oklahoma-165343606.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/q9qwPtvlefD8F06jaaiPmQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-05-02T165343Z_1_CBREA411AXY00_RTROPTP_2_OBAMA-MERKEL.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="U.S. President Obama and German Chancellor Merkel address joint news conference in the White House Rose Garden in Washington" align="left" title="U.S. President Obama and German Chancellor Merkel address joint news conference in the White House Rose Garden in Washington" border="0" /></a>President Barack Obama on Friday said the botched execution of a murderer in Oklahoma raises questions about the death penalty in the United States and he will ask the U.S. attorney general to look into the situation. &quot;What happened in Oklahoma is deeply troubling,&quot; he said. The condemned man, Clayton Lockett, 38, who was convicted of murder, rape, kidnapping and robbery in a 1999 crime spree, died of an apparent heart attack minutes after the lethal injection protocol failed. A prison report said the problem was largely due to a collapsed vein during the injection of the lethal drugs and that the needle was inserted in Lockett's groin instead of his arm.</p><br clear="all"/>

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