Rick Perry On Clayton Lockett Execution: 'I Don't Know Whether It Was Inhumane Or Not' »
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) defended the use of capital punishment and lethal injections Sunday, after the disastrous execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma on Tuesday renewed a national debate on the practices. Perry, whose state has put more prisoners to death than any other since 1976, acknowledged that Lockett's execution was "botched" but stopped short of calling it "inhumane." "I don't know whether it was inhumane or not, but it was botched," Perry said on NBC's "Meet the Press.
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