At the urging of the Department of Corrections, legislators revised state statutes to ban any person from “knowingly disclosing the identity of a current or former member of an execution team.”

In a news release Wednesday, Bucklew’s attorneys, Cheryl Pilate and Lindsay Runnels, said Lockett’s execution was botched “by the extreme secrecy surrounding lethal injection that Oklahoma fought hard in the courts to protect.”

“Last night’s botched execution in Oklahoma holds important lessons for Missouri and should lead to an immediate suspension of all executions in Missouri pending full disclosure by the State of its protocols and its drug,” the statement said. “Like Oklahoma, Missouri relies on unknown drugs and untested protocols, hiding everything behind a wall of secrecy. Under these circumstances, a botched execution is inevitable.”

The attorneys for Bucklew said independent medical specialists had reviewed Bucklew’s records and found that he had malformed blood vessels, adding to the risk that he would suffer an excruciating execution.

In an emailed statement, a spokesman for Nixon noted that “the State of Missouri has its own execution protocol.”