However, is it cruel and unusual? In the court case of Glossip vs. Gross twenty death row inmates sued state officials, saying that a drug used in the lethal injection procedure was unconstitutional. This was because of the procedure used on Clayton Lockett. “The procedure went poorly; Lockett awoke after the injection of the drugs that were supposed to render him unconscious and did not die until about 40 minutes later.”(Oyez.org). Even though the case was lost, it brought up many concerning problems with this type of execution. If the procedure can have major calamities, and the prisoner could be put through unnecessary pain and torment, then this procedure is cruel, and thus