Story highlights The execution was halted because of legal deadline pressure, prison chief says

Inmate "wanted to die rather than that continue going on," his attorney says

(CNN) A federal judge has ordered Alabama prison officials to preserve all evidence related to an aborted execution, including the clothing the inmate wore, following an unsuccessful lethal injection attempt that the convict's attorney described as "botched and bloody."

Chief US District Judge Karon Bowdre of the Northern District of Alabama also ordered corrections officials to allow for a full medical examination of inmate Doyle Lee Hamm, 61, whose execution last Thursday was called off about 2 1/2 hours after he was taken into the death chamber, court documents show.

Hamm's attorney, Bernard Harcourt, wrote Sunday in a blog post following a physician's two-hour exam of his client that "the IV personnel almost certainly punctured Doyle's bladder, because he was urinating blood for the next day. They may have hit his femoral artery as well, because suddenly there was a lot of blood gushing out."

"He has pain going from the lower abdomen to the upper thigh," Harcourt wrote, noting more than 10 puncture wounds. "He is limping badly now and terribly sore."

Hamm on Tuesday was back on death row in solitary confinement, Harcourt told CNN, adding that a doctor's report of the exam would be filed by Wednesday.

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