A Moral Majority

January / February, 2016

With shifting attitudes among soul- searching Republicans, a new day in the crusade against the death penalty may be dawning On April 29, 2014, 15 years after Clayton Lockett shot 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman and buried her alive in a shal­low grave, the unrepentant killer's own life reached its end, as ordered by the state of Oklahoma. But Lockett's exe­cution, far from the sanitized, clinical image of death we associate with lethal injection, was a botched, bloody mess. At 6:33 rm., 10 minutes...