Witness accounts of Thursday's execution, in which reporters on site reported seeing the inmate convulse two dozen times before vomiting on himself, were "embellished," the head of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections said. In a Friday news conference held nearly 24 hours after Oklahoma's first execution in more than six years, Corrections Director Scott Crow said the agency will continue to carry out executions as planned with no changes to its lethal injection protocols.

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