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Oklahoma Prisons Lawyer Says He Felt Pressured
By news9.com
Published: 12/19/2014

A longtime lawyer for Oklahoma's prison system says he felt pressured by the governor's and attorney general's offices to make sure executions last spring happened on schedule, despite the lack of an execution method.

Corrections Department lawyer Michael Oakley said during a federal court hearing Thursday that he felt pressured "to get it done."

Inmate Clayton Lockett was executed under new protocols last April, but mumbled and struggled against his restraints as he died. Remaining death row inmates contend that Oklahoma is experimenting on them and say they don't want executions to resume next month.

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