He deserved it! Friends of victim have no sympathy for botched execution as video surfaces of the chilling 1999 taped confession of Oklahoma murderer who showed no remorse

Clayton Lockett took more than half an hour to die of a heart attack after his execution failed

He was sentenced to death for the 1999 beating, shooting and burying alive of Stephanie Neiman

Residents of the small town she's from say Lockett deserved his tortured last minutes

It is not clear if Oklahoma officials will seek a new lethal injection drug or halt executions for the foreseeable future



Dead: Clayton Lockett's execution may have failed, but he died soon after

Those who knew the victim of a convicted killer who died in a botched execution this week have spoken out to say he deserved the painful death - in which he took 47 minutes to die after periods of writhing in pain.



They expressed their lack of remorse as a disturbing video emerged of Clayton Lockett confessing, and calmly described shooting a teenage girl and watching his partners in crime bury her alive.



Lockett was sentenced to death for the killing of 19-year-old Stephanie Nieman 15 years ago in Oklahoma.



His execution was carried out with three previously untested drugs, and saw Lockett die of a heart attack 47 minutes after the execution began.



The vein in which doctors were trying to administer the drug had exploded, meaning the lethal dose was slowly absorbed through his body tissue instead of going directly into the blood stream.



‘What that guy got he deserved,’ Marilee Macias a friend of Nieman's, told KFOR.

‘I have no sympathy at all,’ Tiajuana Hammock added. ‘None whatsoever.’

Their words came after police released Lockett's confession video in which he calmy described his victim's final moments.



'I could hear her breathing and crying and everything,' Lockett says in the video made public by KFOR while casually smoking a cigarette.

The footage was shot only two days after a break-in led to the shocking murder.

'I had the shotgun in my hand and I popped [the homeowner] in the head with the barrel, and he looked and seen the shotgun and calmed down and he said don’t kill me, don’t kill my son,' Lockett continued.

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At ease: Lockett had no problem going over the details of his disturbing crimes Murder weapon: Authorities say this is the gun used by Lockett to shoot Neiman Where it happened: The property where Neiman was beaten, shot and buried Where she was buried: Neiman was shot and buried on this property, her grave is marked in red

Neiman happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time – she stopped at the home to drop off a friend in the middle of the robbery.

All witnesses agreed to secrecy except Neiman, Lockett had a solution.



‘Let’s take them out in the country and leave them,' Lockett recalled saying. They said, ‘No. We can’t do that. We’ll still get caught.

'I said, ‘The only thing we can do is take them to the country, and kill them... I couldn’t convince her not to tell.'

Lockett shot Neiman twice with a sawed-off shotgun and watched two other men bury her alive, he confessed.



His menacing wasn't done there, he even wrote a letter from jail threatening one of the witnesses saying 'cause I'm an assassin - point blank!'



Residents of Perry acknowledge that he did suffer – but not nearly as much as Neiman.

‘Stephanie was beat up, she was shot, she was thrown in a grave when she was still alive,’ Macias added.

‘His little 30 minutes of lying there in anguish, if he was even feeling any anguish for 30 minutes does not compare at all to anything Stephanie went through or her family.’





No sympathy: Marilee Macias (left) and April Sewell (right) say Lockett got what he deserved Tough luck: Friend Tiajuana Hammock says Lockett deserved to suffer Lucky to be alive: Bobby Bornt was the target of Lockett's robbery and headbutted during the invasion but lived to tell about it

Final moments: Lockett died of a heart attack at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, in McAlester

The suffering may have only been half an hour, but it must have felt like an eternity to Lockett.

Guards had to shoot him earlier in the day with a Taser gun after he refused to submit to an x-ray mandated by law for all death row inmates.

He then refused to eat or speak with his attorneys before being brought to the death chamber.

Things went from bad to worse when prison staff determined the only groin suitable for the death drip IV was in his groin – which was covered by a sheet to prevent the viewing public from seeing it, according to reports.

BOTCHED EXECUTION TIMELINE

6.23pm - The injection process begins as authorities cover Lockett's groin with a towel and inject the first of three untested chemicals into a vein after they were unable to find a suitable site elsewhere

6.29pm - Consistently closed his eyes

6.30pm - First check of consciousness; still conscious

6.33pm - Announced Lockett was officially unconscious

6.34pm - Lockett started to move his mouth

6.36pm - Lockett began convulsing and mumbling

6.37pm - Lockett sat up and said 'something's wrong'

6.39pm - Prison officials lowered the blinds

7.06pm - Lockett dies of massive heart attack

The four-time felon soon began writhing, clenching and gnashing his teeth while trying to life his head up after the point he was expected to have been rendered unconscious by midazolam, the first of three drugs administered.

He soon died of a heart attack, but only after 30 agonizing minutes.

Despite the execution not playing out as humanely as expected, Lockett would not find sympathy in the small town 65 miles north of Oklahoma City.

‘Who cares if he feels pain,’ stylist April Sewel told KFOR. ‘You know honestly, he’s getting away a lot easier than how his victim did, how Stephanie did.’

Hammock agreed.

‘I want them to sit back and think,’ she said. ‘If that were your child, would you have sympathy?’

Neiman’s family released the following statement.

‘God blessed us with our precious daughter, Stephanie for 19 years. Stephanie loved children. She worked in Vacation Bible School and always helped with our Church nativity scenes.

‘She was the joy of our life. We are thankful this day has finally arrived and justice will finally be served.’

Justice has been served in the eyes of many, but not to federal government officials in Washington, D.C.

Brutally murdered: Stephanie Neiman was beaten, shot and buried alive Still grieving: Neiman's parents Susie and Steve have not spoken outside of their handwritten statement Handwritten: The statement released by Neiman's parents says the family is thankful 'justice will finally be served'

Death bed: The death chamber in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, where Lockett's failed execution was carried out. After he died of a subsequent heart attack, his body was autopsied by independent investigators who have now returned it to his relatives while keeping his heart and larynx for 'additional testing'

Kept waiting: Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokesman Jerry Massie waits for a call telling him that Clayton Lockett died on the execution table - the phone took more than half an hour to ring Fallout: Robert Patton, Director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, talks Tuesday with members of the media about the execution of Clayton Lockett

White House spokesperson Jay Carney said Wednesday that Lockett’s execution failed to meet that standard.

A lawyer for Charles Warner, also sentenced to death in the state, argued for a stay in her client’s execution after the debacle that was Lockett’s.

'After weeks of Oklahoma refusing to disclose basic information about the drugs for tonight's lethal injection procedures, tonight, Clayton Lockett was tortured to death,’ said Madeline Cohen.

That motion was granted after originally being denied.

States are being forced to find new methods for carrying out death by lethal injection after European drug makers began cutting off access last year to the drug pentobarbital over human rights concerns.