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| Oklahoma Death Row Inmates Seek to Halt Executions |
| By officer.com- Sean Murphy |
| Published: 06/26/2014 |
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — By tinkering with Oklahoma's lethal injection procedures, prison officials are experimenting on death row inmates and violating the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, attorneys for a group of condemned Oklahoma inmates argued Wednesday in a federal lawsuit. Filed in U.S. District Court in Oklahoma City on behalf of 21 death row inmates, the lawsuit seeks to halt any attempt to execute them using the state's current lethal injection protocols, which it claims presents a risk of severe pain and suffering. It also contends state officials failed to consult experts in the development of procedures and that the drugs being used are not suitable for executions. The lawsuit follows the state's botched April 29 execution of Clayton Lockett using a new three-drug method. Lockett writhed on the gurney, moaned and clenched his teeth for several minutes, and his execution was halted after a doctor determined there was a problem with a single IV in Lockett's groin. He was pronounced dead anyway about 43 minutes after the execution began. Read More. |
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