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| US Supreme Court to hear challenge to Oklahoma lethal injection protocol |
| By wsws.org- Kate Randall |
| Published: 01/27/2015 |
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On Monday, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt asked the US Supreme Court to stay three pending executions until the high court conducts a review of the state’s lethal injection protocol. The Supreme Court announced last Friday that it would hear a challenge to Oklahoma’s death penalty procedure that alleges the process amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. It is unclear if the Supreme Court will issue a stay for the three death row inmates represented in the case. The decision to hear their cases, and Oklahoma’s request for temporary stays, came too late for one prisoner, Charles Warner. He was executed January 15, after a 5-4 ruling of the high court justices allowed his execution to proceed despite the ongoing legal challenge to Oklahoma’s execution protocol. The fate of another Oklahoma prisoner, Richard Glossip, also hangs in the balance. He is scheduled to die by the lethal injection procedure in question on Thursday, barring a stay by the Supreme Court. The inmates’ case, originally named Warner v. Gross, was changed to Glossip v. Gross after Warner’s execution. The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the case some time this spring. Read More. |
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