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| OK Could Execute Inmates With Drug Combo That Left Man Gasping |
| By huffingtonpost.com- Bailey Elise McBride |
| Published: 03/25/2014 |
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Facing a shortage of its traditional execution drugs, Oklahoma has revised its procedures to include the same two-drug mixture that left an Ohio inmate making gasp-like sounds as his lethal injection was carried out earlier this year, lawyers for two condemned inmates said Monday. The attorneys said in a court filing that they were notified after business hours Friday that Oklahoma's prison system had adopted five acceptable ways to put death-row inmates to death. All involve multiple doses of sedatives that by themselves could be lethal. The Oklahoma attorney general's office had notified the state Court of Criminal Appeals on March 17 that it couldn't obtain the sedative pentobarbital and the paralytic agent vecuronium bromide. Those drugs, along with potassium chloride, which stops the heart, had been Oklahoma's execution-drug mixture. Read More. |
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