USA - Oklahoma. Family of Clayton Lockett plans to sue governor and executioners.

Family of Clayton Lockett plans to sue governor and executioners. The family of Lockett, whose bungled April execution pushed Oklahoma to the forefront of a national debate over the death penalty, plans to sue Gov. Mary Fallin and various members of the state's execution team, claiming Lockett's lethal injection violated his civil rights, attorneys for the family said. Attorneys representing the family of Clayton Derrell Lockett have prepared a complaint against Fallin, the three executioners involved in his execution, and the manufacturers of the drugs used to kill him, among others, claiming they violated Lockett's Eighth Amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment. Attorneys on Monday said they planned to file a lawsuit "imminently" in federal court in Oklahoma City. The complaint also calls his execution "a violation of innumerable standards of international law, and a violation of elementary concepts of human decency." "In a spectacle rarely seen in the 'civilized' world, Clayton Lockett writhed in agony, convulsed, gasped for breath, moaned repeatedly and took approximately 43 minutes to die at the hands of the Defendants," attorneys for the estate of Clayton Lockett wrote. Lockett was put to death by the state in April for the 1999 murder of Stephanie Neiman.