Conservatives React To Botched Execution

"The botched Oklahoma execution of Clayton Lockett was largely due to a collapsed vein during the lethal injection, and the needle was inserted in the groin area instead of the arm after prison officials used a stun gun to restrain him, a prisons report said on Thursday."

Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) host of The Young Turks breaks down the story and discusses reactions from Donny Deutsch, Senator Tom Coburn and Senator James Inhofe. 

"Pressed on "Morning Joe," Senator Tom Coburn conceded that the episode raises questions "about the death penalty and whether or not that, in and of itself, is appropriate and whether you can do that humanely." But Coburn said the number of botched lethal injections is "very, very small." "Humans make errors," Coburn said.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05...

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Kidnapped Teen Girls Forced To Marry

"Scores of girls kidnapped from a school in northern Nigeria two weeks ago are being forced to marry their Boko Haram abductors, a local human rights group has reported.

Halite Aliyu, of the Borno-Yobe People's Forum, told the Associated Press on Wednesday that more than 200 of the girls who were kidnapped had been sold to fighters for $12 each.

Aliyu said the information given about the mass weddings was coming from villagers in the Sambisa Forest, on Nigeria's border with Cameroon where Boko Haram was known to have a number of hideouts."

Read more here: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles...

Lethal Injection Gone Wrong Halts Death Penalty In Oklahoma

"A botched execution that used a new drug combination left an Oklahoma inmate writhing and clenching his teeth on the gurney Tuesday, leading prison officials to halt the proceedings before the inmate's eventual death from a heart attack.

Clayton Lockett, 38, was declared unconscious 10 minutes after the first of the state's new three-drug lethal injection combination was administered. Three minutes later, though, he began breathing heavily, writhing, clenching his teeth and straining to lift his head off the pillow." 

Read more from Associated Press here:http://bigstory.ap.org/article/oklaho...