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| OK Man Gets Another Stay Of Execution |
| By gainesville.com |
| Published: 08/18/2010 |
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OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma death row inmate's execution was stayed for the third time in less than three months Tuesday, after his defense attorneys objected to corrections officials' plans to substitute one of three drugs to be used in his lethal injection. Jeffrey David Matthews U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot issued the stay just hours before Jeffrey David Matthews, 38, was set to be executed for the 1994 murder of his 77-year-old great-uncle, Otis Earl Short, during a robbery of Short's home. Friot stayed the execution after defense attorneys objected to Department of Corrections plans to substitute the first of three drugs used in the lethal injection process, said Charlie Price, spokesman for Attorney General Drew Edmondson's office. Read More. |
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