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Clayton Lockett Oklahoma Execution

Clayton Lockett was executed by the State of Oklahoma for kidnapping and murder. According to court documents Clayton Lockett would kidnap nineteen year old Stephanie Neiman along with two accomplices. Stephanie Neiman would be brought to a remote location where she would be shot twice with a shotgun and then buried alive. Clayton Lockett would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. Clayton Lockett execution did not go well as the drugs used during the execution failed to work properly Clayton would ultimately die from a heart attack.

Clayton Lockett Botched Execution

Oklahoma prison officials put a catheter into a death row inmate’s groin after struggling for 51 minutes to find a vein elsewhere, it has emerged.

Writhing and mumbling, Clayton Lockett died of an apparent heart attack 10 minutes after prisons officials halted his botched execution when the vein in his groin collapsed.

It was also revealed on Thursday that guards used a stun gun on the prisoner earlier in the day after he refused to be shackled to leave his cell.

He was then taken to a prison hospital where he cut his own arm.

More details of Lockett’s death were revealed on Thursday in a report by the state’s prisons chief, Robert Patton, as he urged more oversight of executions.Advertisement

The intravenous line into Lockett’s groin fell out and was not noticed until 21 minutes after the execution began and all the lethal drugs had been administered.

Patton wrote: “The drugs had either absorbed into tissue, leaked out or both.”

Prison officials drew the blinds on the chamber as Lockett’s execution went awry.

The 38-year-old was convicted in 2000 for the kidnap and murder of Stephanie Neiman, 19, during a home invasion a year earlier. She was shot and buried alive. Lockett also raped one of her friends.

The Neiman family said in a statement of Lockett’s death: “We are thankful this day has finally arrived and justice will finally be served.”

In his report, the prisons director proposed a moratorium on executions in the state until procedures for judicial killings can be reviewed.

Mr Patton also recommended that the execution of Charles Warner, who was originally scheduled to face lethal injection two hours after Lockett, be put off indefinitely.

Warner, 46, was convicted in 1997 of raping and killing an 11-month-old baby girl, whose mother he lived with.

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Mary Fallin said on Thursday she was prepared to issue a 60-day stay on Warner’s death.

The White House has criticised Lockett’s botched execution, saying it fell short of humane standards.

https://news.sky.com/story/oklahoma-inmate-had-drugs-pumped-into-groin-10407243

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At around 10:30 p.m. Bobby Bornt was asleep on the couch at his house in Perry, Oklahoma, when his front door was kicked in. Clayton Lockett, Shawn Mathis and Alfonzo Lockett entered his house and immediately started beating and kicking him. Lockett was carrying a shotgun which he used to hit Bornt. After the beating, duct tape was used to secure his hands behind his back and they gagged him and left him on the couch while they ransacked the house looking for drugs. As Bornt lay restrained, his friend, Summer Hair, approached the open door. She was pulled inside, hit in the face and thrown against a wall. One of the men put a gun to her head and ordered her to call to her friend, Stephanie Neiman, who was outside sitting in her pickup. When Neiman came inside, they hit her several times to get the keys to her pickup. They were bound with duct tape and put in the bedroom where Bornt’s nine-month old son, Sam, had been sleeping. Hair was forcibly raped and sodomized by all three men. They were then loaded into the pickup trucks of Bornt and Nieman and driven to a remote rural location. Hair was again raped in a ditch by Clayton Lockett and Mathis, who told her “In order for you to live, this is what you have got to do.”

Clayton Lockett instructed Mathis to dig a grave and said :”Someone has got to go.” Neiman was taken to the hole dug by Mathis. When she refused to promise that she would not go to the police, Clayton Lockett shot her. The gun jammed, but he fixed it, returned and shot her again. While Mathis buried Neiman, Bornt and Hair were warned that if they told anyone they would be killed too. They then drove both pickups and dropped off Bornt, his son and Hair at Bornt’s house and they left in Bornt’s pickup. The following day, Bornt and Hair told the Perry police what had happened. Neiman’s pickup and her body were recovered and all three men were subsequently arrested. Clayton Lockett ultimately confessed to police

http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/lockett1379.htm

Kenneth Hogan Oklahoma Execution

Kenneth Hogan was executed by the State of Oklahoma for the murder of a woman in 1988. According to court documents Kenneth Hogan would stab to death Lisa Stanley in her home and would then knock over a number of items to make it look like a robbery gone bad. Kenneth Hogan would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. Kenneth Hogan would be executed by lethal injection on January 23, 2014

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An Oklahoma man who was convicted of stabbing a close friend to death more than a quarter-century ago was executed Thursday.

Kenneth Eugene Hogan, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. after he received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

Hogan admitted to stabbing 21-year-old Lisa Stanley but said he did so in self-defense after she lunged at him with a knife.

Prosecutors said Hogan stabbed the woman more than 25 times in the back, neck and chest in January 1988, then knocked over several objects in her Oklahoma City apartment to make it appear as though she had been robbed.

When interrogated, he gave police inconsistent statements.

The state Pardon and Parole Board denied clemency for Hogan this month by a 4-1 vote. Hogan is the second person to be executed in Oklahoma this year.

Hogan’s initial conviction was overturned in 1999 by an appeals court that said the jury should’ve been allowed to consider a verdict of manslaughter.

“By denying the jury the option to convict him on a lesser, noncapital offense supported by the evidence, thus leaving only a choice between conviction of capital murder and acquittal, Oklahoma may have encouraged the jury to convict for an impermissible reason its belief that the defendant is guilty of some serious crime and should be punished,” the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals held.

Oklahoma appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which in 2000 refused to reinstate Hogan’s conviction.

A different jury in 2003 convicted him again and sentenced him to die.

“Kenneth Eugene Hogan was sentenced to death by a jury of his peers for the heinous stabbing of Lisa Renee Stanley, who was a young wife and a promising student,” Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said in a statement Thursday. “My thoughts and prayers are with Lisa’s family and friends.”

Randy Bauman, Hogan’s attorney, declined to comment this week.

Stanley’s relatives wrote to the state in December, saying Hogan has had “26 years of appeals on his behalf, making our family relive that day over and over again.”

“You destroyed me and my family,” said Norma Tressler, Stanley’s mother. “I want peace and justice to be served for my daughter. I want for this nightmare to finally end.

“And on Jan. 23, 2014, I pray for closure. It is well past due.”

Stanley’s mother-in-law, Frieda Stanley, wrote that no amount of time could erase the memories she still has of the day of the crime and its aftermath.

“Lisa’s little dog barking in the background, interviews at the police station and later picking out clothing for Lisa to wear at her funeral that would cover her wounds,” she wrote. “Lisa’s death and how she died is always with us and has shaped and formed us as individuals and a family.”

At the time of Hogan’s trial, his defense team said Hogan and Stanley began arguing after smoking marijuana together and Stanley tried to stab him

According to lawyers, he took the knife from her and then she tried to attack him with another one.

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agent Bob Horn, who worked the crime scene, described Stanley’s killing as “cruel and heinous.”

He also said the large volume of her blood found in different rooms throughout her apartment “showed that she must have been suffering a long time before she died.”

“Justice demands that the execution of Kenneth Hogan be carried out,” Horn wrote in a December letter to the parole board.

Earlier this month, Michael Lee Wilson, 38, was put to death for orchestrating a deadly assault on a convenience store worker in Tulsa in 1995.

https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/killer-executed-in-1988-oklahoma-city-fatal-stabbing/article_012622f6-aede-55e9-aa71-aad6c72de0da.html

Michael Wilson Oklahoma Execution

Michael Wilson was executed by the State of Oklahoma for a robbery murder. According to court documents Michael Wilson was employed at the QuickTrip in Tulsa. Michael Wilson and a few other men would enter the store, tie up the owner before beating him to death with a baseball bat, Michael Wilson would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. Michael Wilson would be executed by lethal injection on January 9 2014. Two other men were executed, Billy Alverson and Darwin Brown while the third participant was only sixteen years old at the time of the crime and given a life sentence.

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Almost two decades after the beating death of a convenience store employee, Michael Lee Wilson, the victim’s co-worker, was executed by lethal injection Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

Twenty seconds after the execution started, Wilson’s final words were, “I feel my whole body burning.”

Wilson, 38, was convicted of first-degree murder for planning and taking part in the deadly assault on Richard Yost while the two worked together at a Tulsa convenience store in February 1995.

Wilson and three others were found guilty of beating Yost with an aluminum baseball bat 54 times in just over two minutes. They proceeded to swipe the store’s safe, and Wilson put on Yost’s uniform and worked the cash register as the victim lay dying in a pool of blood, beer and milk in the cooler.

Together with Wilson, four men were convicted of the crime; one is serving a life sentence, the other two have already been executed by the state.

Before the injection, Wislon gave two brief remarks. First he said, “I love everybody,” and then, just after the execution was ordered to begin, “I love the world. Love my daughters for me. I’m going to miss you always.” Warden Anita Trammel oversaw the execution and the time of death was 6:06 p.m. Thursday, according to prison spokesman Jerry Massie.

Members of Wilson’s family were present, including his mother, sister and fiancé. Sister Staci Wilson sang a hymn during the execution and recited Psalm 23 after her brother was officially pronounced dead.

“Closure will be not hearing this on the news and reading about it in the paper,” read a statement from Yost’s family issued by his widow, Angela Houser-Yost. “That is my closure – not to relive his death over and over but to remember the good times.”

Yost was 30 when he was killed, and had hopes of one day becoming store manager.

Wilson is the third man to be executed for the crime, joining Darwin Brown, 32, executed in January 2009, and Billy Don Alverson, 39, executed in January 2011. The fourth defendant, Richard Harjo, was only 16 at the time of the crime and is currently serving a lifetime prison sentence.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/okla-man-says-he-can-feel-body-burning-during-execution/

Charles Warner Oklahoma Execution

Charles Warner was executed by the State of Oklahoma for the sexual assault and murder of an eleven month old infant. According to court documents Charles Warner would sexually assault and murder eleven month old Adriana Waller, the daughter of his roommate. Charles Warner would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. Charles Warner would be executed by lethal injection on January 15, 2015

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A man who raped and killed an 11-month-old girl in 1997 was put to death by the state Thursday in Oklahoma’s first execution in nine months.

Charles Frederick Warner, 47, was pronounced dead at 7:28 p.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

Warner’s execution via a deadly three-drug cocktail was the first state-sanctioned killing of an inmate since the controversial execution of Clayton Lockett on April 29.

Lockett’s execution went awry as doctors struggled to set a proper IV, and it took more than 40 minutes for him to die. That led the state to stay executions while it investigated what went wrong.

Attorneys for the state said a failed intravenous line and a lack of training led to the problems with Lockett’s injection, not the drugs used. Still, Oklahoma ordered a five-fold increase in the sedative dose.

Executioners on Thursday were expected to use essentially the same three drugs used in Lockett’s execution.

Warner killed his roommate’s daughter, Adriana Waller, in Oklahoma City. He was convicted in 1999, later granted a new trial and convicted again in 2003.

https://www.oklahoman.com/article/5385028/oklahoma-killer-executed-for-death-of-infant-girl

William Lewis Reece Jury Recommends Death

A jury in Oklahoma has recommended that serial killer William Lewis Reece be sentenced to death. William Lewis Reece who was convicted of abducting a woman from a car wash and later murdering her more than twenty years ago. William Lewis Reece was convicted last week of the 1997 kidnapping and killing of 19-year-old Tiffany Johnston. Just because the jury recommended death there is still a chance that the Judge will sentence him to life in prison without parole, formal sentencing is not til August.

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A jury in Oklahoma has recommended a death sentence for an alleged serial killer who was convicted of kidnapping a woman from a car wash and killing her more than 20 years ago.

The jury on Wednesday recommended the death penalty for William Lewis Reece, who was convicted last week of first-degree murder for the 1997 kidnapping and killing of 19-year-old Tiffany Johnston. Formal sentencing is set for Aug. 19.

Reece did not testify at his trial, but the jury heard recordings of his confessions to police in which he admitted killing Johnston and three other people in Texas, The Oklahoman reported.

Johnston, 20-year-old Kelli Cox, 17-year-old Jessica Cain and 12-year-old Laura Smither all disappeared over a four-month period in 1997, after Reece had been released from an Oklahoma prison for previous rape and kidnapping convictions.

Smither’s body was found shortly after her disappearance, but the remains of Cain and Cox weren’t found until 2016, when Reece began cooperating with prosecutors.

“We’re all so happy that he got the death penalty,” said Johnston’s mother, Kathy Dobry.

“Even though it helped families in Texas … it was for Tiffany,” she said of the verdict. “After 24 years, and 10 months, this is Tiffany’s time.”

Reece’s defense attorney, Jacob Benedict, did not dispute that Reece killed Johnston, but said his client only confessed because a Texas Ranger had promised that prosecutors wouldn’t seek the death penalty.

“A promise he couldn’t keep, but still a promise,” Benedict said.

Gay Smither, the mother of 12-year-old Laura Smither, traveled to Oklahoma for the trial, Houston TV station KPRC reported. Reece still faces charges for her daughter’s death in Texas.

“If we don’t have our day in court in Galveston, we can live with it because he’s at least held accountable here,” she said. “The most important thing is we know now for sure there is absolutely no way this man will ever get out.”

https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/oklahoma-jury-recommends-death-for-alleged-serial-killer-convicted-in-teens-1997-kidnapping-killing/

William Reece Sentenced To Death

Admitted serial killer William Lewis Reece had one last opportunity to apologize directly to the family of the newlywed he abducted from a Bethany car wash and strangled to death in 1997.

He stayed silent.

“No,” he said loudly behind a mask when the judge asked him if he wanted to say something.

“There’s an old saying in the law, ‘Justice delayed is justice denied,'” Oklahoma County District Judge Susan Stallings then told him. “Justice will not be delayed any longer in this case. I sentence you to death.”

A jury in June decided Reece, 62, should be executed for the murder of Tiffany Johnston. He showed no emotion as the judge sentenced him Thursday morning.

He will appeal, his defense attorney announced.

He never testified at his trial but jurors heard hours of his confessions to the killing in Oklahoma and three in Texas in 1997. The victims were all females, the youngest 12.

“He’s not sorry,” Johnston’s mother, Kathy Dobry, of Anadarko, said after the 15-minute formal sentencing. “He’s just a serial killer. He doesn’t care about anyone but himself.”

She also said she will never forgive him.

“Never. I’m sorry,” Dobry said. “I believe in God and all that but I will never forgive him. And I’m glad people can. But not this momma.”

Reece began confessing in 2016 from a Texas prison after being linked to the Oklahoma cold case by his DNA. He eventually revealed where in Texas he buried two bodies with bulldozers.

He admitted to first killing Laura Smither, 12, in the Houston suburb of Friendswood.

Smither disappeared on April 3, 1997, while jogging. Her body was found later that month in a retention pond.

He next killed Kelli Cox, a 20-year-old student at the University of North Texas in Denton. She disappeared on July 15, 1997, after going on a class field trip and locking herself out of her car.

Her remains were found at a rice field south of Houston in April 2016.

He confessed to raping and killing Johnston after throwing her inside his horse trailer at the Sunshine Car Wash in Bethany on July 26, 1997.

The newlywed was 19.

He said he dumped her in tall grass off a dirt road. The mostly nude body was found the next day.

He admitted to last killing Jessica Cain, 17, of Tiki Island, Texas.

She disappeared after leaving a Bennigan’s Restaurant in Clear Lake, Texas, on Aug. 17, 1997. Her vehicle was found abandoned along the interstate. Her remains were found on March 2016 at a dig site in Houston.

Prosecutors alleged at trial that Reece targeted his victims to satisfy his sexual urges. They alleged he lied in his confessions and never revealed his true motive and all the details of each death.

“And so in a terrifying fashion we are left wondering what really happened to Tiffany Johnston at the hands of William Reece,” Assistant District Attorney Ryan Stephenson told the judge Thursday.

“Evil is the best word that I can come up with,” the prosecutor said.

Johnston’s mother, husband and other relatives sat in the jury box for the sentencing Thursday.

Also in the courtroom were Smither’s parents and Cox’s mother and daughter.

Reece was born in Oklahoma but lived in Texas at the time of the killings. He drove trucks, operated a bulldozer and shoed horses for a living when he wasn’t in prison.

He was charged Tuesday with a new felony: possession of contraband by an inmate.

He is accused of having a smuggled pink cellphone in jail in July.

“We have made great strides to keep contraband out of the jail,” the jail administrator, Greg Williams, said Wednesday. “However, like in all corrections facilities, inmates will continue to seek ways to get ahold of contraband. We need to stay vigilant and alert in our efforts.”

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2021/08/19/oklahoma-killer-william-lewis-reece-sentenced-1997-death-tiffany-johnston/8194761002/

William Reece 2022 Information

William Reece is being held in Texas however he is under a death sentence in Oklahoma

SID Number: 06076393

TDCJ Number: 00831080

Name: REECE,WILLIAM LEWIS

Race: W

Gender: M

Age: 62

Maximum Sentence Date: 2057-10-16

Current Facility: COUNTY BENCH WARRANT

Projected Release Date: 2057-10-16

Parole Eligibility Date: 2027-10-16

Inmate Visitation Eligible: