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Ohio lets warden decide how to execute inmates
By rt.com
Published: 03/26/2014

Oklahoma’s Department of Corrections has expanded its new execution protocol to include five different lethal injection procedures, and has also made the choice the sole discretion of the state’s warden.

The move comes about one week after Oklahoma was forced to delay the executions of the convicted murderers Charles Warner and Clayton Lockett. Last week, their lethal injection procedures were postponed for a month due to the fact that the state could not obtain the drugs necessary for its original protocol: pentobarbital and vecuronium.

According to NBC News, lawyers for the death row inmates said the new protocol allows for five possible one-drug and three-drug combinations injections to be used during an execution.

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