How Oklahoma's GOP Governor Turned a Heinous Killer Into a Death-Penalty Martyr

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) has done what almost no death penalty foe has been able to do in decades of fighting capital punishment: She’s made the country feel sorry for a heinous killer. Last week, she turned a man who shot a 19-year-old woman and watched as she was buried alive, into exhibit A as to why the death penalty should be abolished. No one had ever envisioned Clayton Lockett as a poster child for death-penalty abolition. He was a bad man. No one argued that he might be innocent, ...