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| Oklahoma attorney general agrees to execution stay |
| By timesargus.com |
| Published: 05/09/2014 |
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s attorney general agreed Thursday to a six-month stay of execution for a death row inmate while an investigation is conducted into last week’s botched lethal injection. Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s office filed court documents saying it wouldn’t object to a 180-day stay of execution being sought by attorneys for inmate Charles Warner. While the stay request only applies to Warner, Pruitt and Gov. Mary Fallin have said the state will not carry out any executions until the investigation is complete, which is expected to take at least eight weeks. Warner was scheduled for execution on the same night last week as Clayton Lockett in what would have been the state’s first double execution since 1937. But Lockett’s vein collapsed during his lethal injection, prompting prison officials to halt the execution. He later died of a heart attack. Read More. |
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