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| 2 Okla. inmates ask court to delay executions |
| By timesrecordnews.com |
| Published: 04/08/2014 |
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two Oklahoma death row inmates asked an appeals court Monday to delay their executions until a lawsuit challenging the state's refusal to reveal where it gets its execution drugs can be settled. Lawyers for Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner filed the request with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. The request argues that although the state Department of Corrections has revealed what drugs it plans to use in the executions, the agency has yet to identify the source of the drugs. Lockett is set to be executed April 22, and Warner on April 29. In a letter to the inmates' attorneys on Friday, the state reiterated that it would be using the three-drug combination of midazolam, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride during the lethal injections. But the state said the midazolam would be the only drug from a compounding pharmacy, a change from its previous plan to use two compounded drugs. The name of the compounding pharmacy wasn't disclosed. Read More. |
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