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| Inmates’ allegations in lawsuit false, state attorneys argue |
| By normantranscript.com- Sean Murphy |
| Published: 07/18/2014 |
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OKLAHOMA CITY — The drugs and procedures used to execute a death row inmate in a botched lethal injection in April do not risk violating the constitutional rights of other prisoners awaiting execution, attorneys for the state of Oklahoma argue. In a response filed late Wednesday in federal court in Oklahoma City, the attorney general’s office also maintains the lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 death row inmates is premature and should be stayed since the state’s execution protocols are currently under review and subject to change. The inmates are seeking to halt any attempt to execute them using the state’s current lethal injection protocols, which they allege present a risk of severe pain and suffering in violation of the U.S. Constitution. But the state said in its filing that all but the three death row plaintiffs currently scheduled to be executed — Charles Warner, Richard Glossip and John Grant — should be dismissed from the case. Read More. |
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